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# רֹתֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7574

**broom-plant** — used 4 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

broom-plant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7574/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֹ֫תֶם: n.m. broom-plant, retem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7574/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 K 19:5 a kind of broom-shrub, broom-plant, retem (NH id.; Arabic رَتَمٌ (on form LagBN 152); 𝔗 רִיתְמָא, all = BH);—abs. ר׳ אֶחָד 1 K 19:5, ר׳ אחת v 4 Kt (אֶחָד Qr); pl. שֹׁרֶשׁ רְתָמִים לַחְמָם Jb 30:4 (on text v. Bu Cheinfr.); גַּחֲלֵי רְתָמִים ψ 120:4, RobBR i. 84, 203, 205, 500 LöwNo. 313 PostHastings, DB, ‘Juniper’ CheEncy. Bib. ‘Juniper’.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a broom plant (2); of broom plants (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 120:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.120.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.120.4/#tree)

חִצֵּ֣י גִבּ֣וֹר שְׁנוּנִ֑ים עִ֝֗ם גַּחֲלֵ֥י רְתָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* arrows of.a.warrior sharpened with burning.coals of.broom.plants

*JPS 1917:* Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of broom.

[Job 30:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.4/#tree)

הַקֹּטְפִ֣ים מַלּ֣וּחַ עֲלֵי־שִׂ֑יחַ וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ רְתָמִ֣ים לַחְמָֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[those who\].pluck.off mallow on bush\[es\] and.\[the\] root of.broom.plants their.food them

*JPS 1917:* They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7574.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7574/): 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).