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title: רָהִיט — rafters · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָהִיט (7351), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: rafters. BDB 1906: n.m.coll. rafters? boards?. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָהִיט

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«רָהִיט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **rafters** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7351 · **BDB:** רָהִיט

### Glosses

rafters (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

rafters [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7351/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m.coll. rafters? boards? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7351/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.coll. rafters? boards? (as strips running between beams? so Bu conj.; cf. Syr. ܪܗܛܐ boards (?), Nö in Bu);—sf. רָהִיטֵנוּ Ct 1:17 Qr (Kt רחיטנו; Codd. רַח׳ Baer p. 46 Köii. 1, 149), ‖ קֹרוֹת.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רָהִיט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7351/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 1:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.17/)

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קֹר֤וֹת בָּתֵּ֙ינוּ֙ אֲרָזִ֔ים רַהִיטֵ֖נוּ בְּרוֹתִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.beams our.houses our \[are\].cedar(s) rafters our \[are\].cypress(es)

*JPS 1917:* The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses.

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