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# רָתַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7570

**boil** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

boil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7570/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָתַח: vb. boil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7570/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. boil (NH id.; Ecclus 43:3 Hiph. make hot; Aramaic רְתַח, ܪܬܰܚ boil);— Imv. ms. רַתַּח causat. Ez 24:5 cause to boil, bring to boiling, c. acc. rei. Pf. 3 pl. רֻתְּחוּ Jb 30:27 my bowels have been made to boil without quiet (fig. of violent emotion). Impf. 3 ms. יַרְתִּיחַ כַּסִּיר מְצוּלָה Jb 41:23 he (the crocod.) maketh the depth boil like the pot.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it makes boil (1); make boil (1); they have been made to boil (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.27/#tree)

מֵעַ֖י רֻתְּח֥וּ וְלֹא־דָ֗מּוּ קִדְּמֻ֥נִי יְמֵי־עֹֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* parts my.inward they.have.been.made.to.boil and not they.have.been.still they have.confronted.me days of.affliction

*JPS 1917:* Mine inwards boil, and rest not; days of affliction are come upon me.

[Job 41:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.23/#tree)

יַרְתִּ֣יחַ כַּסִּ֣יר מְצוּלָ֑ה יָ֝֗ם יָשִׂ֥ים כַּמֶּרְקָחָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.makes.boil like (the) pot \[the\].deep \[the\].sea it.makes like.(the) pot of.ointment

*JPS 1917:* He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a seething mixture.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7570.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7570/): 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).