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# רָתַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7573

**bind** — 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

bind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7573/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָתַם: vb. bind, attach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7573/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bind, attach (cf. Arabic رَتِيمَةٌ thread bound to finger as reminder);— Imv. ms. רְתֹם הַמֶּרְכָּבָה לָרֶכֶשׁ Mi 1:13.

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: harness (1).

## In the verses

[Micah 1:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.13/#tree)

רְתֹ֧ם הַמֶּרְכָּבָ֛ה לָרֶ֖כֶשׁ יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת לָכִ֑ישׁ רֵאשִׁ֨ית חַטָּ֥את הִיא֙ לְבַת־צִיּ֔וֹן כִּי־בָ֥ךְ נִמְצְא֖וּ פִּשְׁעֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* harness the chariot to the steed\[s\] O.inhabitant\[s\] of.Lachish \[was.the\].beginning of.sin it for the.daughter of.Zion (dm) in you they.were.found the.transgressions of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Bind the chariots to the swift steeds, O inhabitant of Lachish; she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel are found in thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7573.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7573/): 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).