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title: רַהַט — trough · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רַהַט (7298), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: trough. BDB 1906: trough. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רַהַט

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«רַהַט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **trough** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 7298 · **BDB:** רַ֫הַט

### Glosses

troughs (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

trough [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7298/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

trough [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7298/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] trough (where water is collected?);—for watering cattle;—pl. רְהָטִים Gn 30:38, 41 Ex 2:16 (all J).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רַהַט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7298/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 2:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.2.16/)

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וּלְכֹהֵ֥ן מִדְיָ֖ן שֶׁ֣בַע בָּנ֑וֹת וַתָּבֹ֣אנָה וַתִּדְלֶ֗נָה וַתְּמַלֶּ֙אנָה֙ אֶת־הָ֣רְהָטִ֔ים לְהַשְׁק֖וֹת צֹ֥אן אֲבִיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and.\[belonged\] to.(the) priest of.Midian seven daughters and they.came and they.drew and they.filled (et) the.drinking troughs to water the.flock their.father their

*JPS 1917:* Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

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[Genesis 30:41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.41/)

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וְהָיָ֗ה בְּכָל־יַחֵם֮ הַצֹּ֣אן הַמְקֻשָּׁרוֹת֒ וְשָׂ֨ם יַעֲקֹ֧ב אֶת־הַמַּקְל֛וֹת לְעֵינֵ֥י הַצֹּ֖אן בָּרֳהָטִ֑ים לְיַחְמֵ֖נָּה בַּמַּקְלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in all the.being.in.heat of the.sheep (the).vigorous \[female\] and he.put.out Jacob (et) the branches to the.eyes of the.sheep in the.drinking troughs it to be.in.heat at the branches

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

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