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# רָתַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7576

**bind** — used 2 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

bind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7576/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָתַק: vb. bind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7576/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bind (Arabic رَتَقَ close up and repair, sew up; Talm. רִיתְקָא fenced enclosure);— Pf. 3 pl. רֻתְּקוּ בַזִּקִּים Na 3:10 her great ones were bound with fetters. Impf. 3 ms. יֵרָתֵק Ec 12:6 Qr (ירחק Kt), from context = be snapped, broken; read prob. יִנָּתֵק (Pfannkuche Thes and mod.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: it will be snapped (1); they were bound (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 12:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.6/#tree)

עַ֣ד אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־יֵרָתֵק֙ חֶ֣בֶל הַכֶּ֔סֶף וְתָרֻ֖ץ גֻּלַּ֣ת הַזָּהָ֑ב וְתִשָּׁ֤בֶר כַּד֙ עַל־הַמַּבּ֔וּעַ וְנָרֹ֥ץ הַגַּלְגַּ֖ל אֶל־הַבּֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* until that not it.will.be.snapped the.cord of.(the) silver and it.will.be.crushed the.bowl of.(the) gold and it.will.be.broken \[the\].jar at the.water spring and it.will.be.crushed the.\[water\] wheel to the well

*JPS 1917:* Before the silver cord is snapped asunder, and the golden bowl is shattered, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel falleth shattered, into the pit;

[Nahum 3:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.10/#tree)

גַּם־הִ֗יא לַגֹּלָה֙ הָלְכָ֣ה בַשֶּׁ֔בִי גַּ֧ם עֹלָלֶ֛יהָ יְרֻטְּשׁ֖וּ בְּרֹ֣אשׁ כָּל־חוּצ֑וֹת וְעַל־נִכְבַּדֶּ֙יהָ֙ יַדּ֣וּ גוֹרָ֔ל וְכָל־גְּדוֹלֶ֖יהָ רֻתְּק֥וּ בַזִּקִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* also it to (the) exile it.went in (the) captivity also children its they.were.dashed.in.pieces at.\[the\] head of.all \[the\].streets and on its.honored \[people\] they.cast a.lot and all its.great \[people\] they.were.bound with (the) fetters

*JPS 1917:* Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7576.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7576/): 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).