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# רְתֻקֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7577

**chain** — 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

chain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7577/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְתֻקָה: chain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7577/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] chain (?);—pl. cstr. רְתֻקוֹת כֶּסֶף Is 40:19.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 40:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.19/#tree)

הַפֶּ֙סֶל֙ נָסַ֣ךְ חָרָ֔שׁ וְצֹרֵ֖ף בַּזָּהָ֣ב יְרַקְּעֶ֑נּוּ וּרְתֻק֥וֹת כֶּ֖סֶף צוֹרֵֽף׃

*Word for word:* the idol he.has.cast a.craftsman and a.metalsmith with (the) gold he will.overlay.it and chains of.silver \[he.is\].refining

*JPS 1917:* The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted, and the goldsmith spread over with gold, the silversmith casting silver chains?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7577.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7577/): 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).