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title: אֹרְחָה — travelling company · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֹרְחָה (736), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: travelling company. BDB 1906: n.f. travelling company, caravan. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֹרְחָה

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«אֹרְחָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **travelling company** — 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:** 736 · **BDB:** אֹרְחָה

### Glosses

O.caravans (1); a.caravan (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

travelling company [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/736/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. travelling company, caravan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/736/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. travelling company, caravan (strictly Pt. of אָרַח), cstr. אֹרְחַת Gn 37:25; pl. cstr. אֹרְחוֹת Is 21:13; cf. also sub אֹרַח, 4.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֹרְחָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/736/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 21:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.13/)

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מַשָּׂ֖א בַּעְרָ֑ב בַּיַּ֤עַר בַּעְרַב֙ תָּלִ֔ינוּ אֹֽרְח֖וֹת דְּדָנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].oracle on Arabia in the thicket\[s\] in Arabia you.will.lodge O.caravans of.Dedanites

*JPS 1917:* The burden upon Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.

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[Genesis 37:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.25/)

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וַיֵּשְׁבוּ֮ לֶֽאֱכָל־לֶחֶם֒ וַיִּשְׂא֤וּ עֵֽינֵיהֶם֙ וַיִּרְא֔וּ וְהִנֵּה֙ אֹרְחַ֣ת יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים בָּאָ֖ה מִגִּלְעָ֑ד וּגְמַלֵּיהֶ֣ם נֹֽשְׂאִ֗ים נְכֹאת֙ וּצְרִ֣י וָלֹ֔ט הוֹלְכִ֖ים לְהוֹרִ֥יד מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

*Word for word:* and they.sat.down to eat bread and they.lifted.up eyes their and they.saw and there! a.caravan of.Ishmaelites \[was\].coming from Gilead and camels their \[were\].carrying spice and balm and myrrh \[they.were\].traveling to take.\[them\].down to Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and ladanum, going to carry it down to Egypt.

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