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title: רֶגֶב — clod · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רֶגֶב (7263), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: clod. BDB 1906: n.m. clod. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רֶגֶב

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«רֶגֶב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **clod** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 7263 · **BDB:** רֶ֫גֶב

### Glosses

\[the\].clods (1); clods (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

clod [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7263/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. clod [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7263/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. clod of earth;—pl. רְגָבִים יְדֻבָּ֑קוּ Jb 38:38 clods are joined together; cstr. רִגְבֵי נָ֑חַל 21:33 clods of (the) wady.

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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 (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רֶגֶב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7263/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 38:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.38/)

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בְּצֶ֣קֶת עָ֭פָר לַמּוּצָ֑ק וּרְגָבִ֥ים יְדֻבָּֽקוּ׃

*Word for word:* when flows \[the\].dust into (the) lump and.\[the\] clods they.are.joined.together

*JPS 1917:* When the dust runneth into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

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[Job 21:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.33/)

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מָֽתְקוּ־ל֗וֹ רִגְבֵ֫י נָ֥חַל וְ֭אַחֲרָיו כָּל־אָדָ֣ם יִמְשׁ֑וֹךְ וּ֝לְפָנָ֗יו אֵ֣ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* they.will.be.sweet to him \[the\].clods of.\[the\].wadi and after him every person he.will.follow and before face him there.\[is\].not number

*JPS 1917:* The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

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