[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%A8%D7%AA%D7%97-2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ר](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/resh/)‎ / רֶתַח‎

# רֶתַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7571

**boiling** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

boiling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7571/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫תַח: boiling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7571/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] boiling;—pl. sf. רְתָחֶיהָ Ez 24:5, as acc. cogn. cause its boilings to boil, make it boil vigorously; but read נְתָחֶיהָ Hi-Sm Co Da (poss.) and all mod. (cf. v 4, 6; ‖ עצמים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: boilings (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 24:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.5/#tree)

מִבְחַ֤ר הַצֹּאן֙ לָק֔וֹחַ וְגַ֛ם דּ֥וּר הָעֲצָמִ֖ים תַּחְתֶּ֑יהָ רַתַּ֣ח רְתָחֶ֔יהָ גַּם־בָּשְׁל֥וּ עֲצָמֶ֖יהָ בְּתוֹכָֽהּ׃ס

*Word for word:* the.choicest of the.flock take and also pile.up the bones under it make.boil boilings its also they.have.cooked bones its in the.midst of.it

*JPS 1917:* Take the choice of the flock, and pile also the bones under it; make it boil well, that the bones thereof may also be seethed in the midst of it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7571/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).