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title: רָחָם — carrion-vulture · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָחָם (7360), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: carrion-vulture. BDB 1906: carrion-vulture. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָחָם

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«רָחָם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **carrion-vulture** — 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:** 7360 · **BDB:** רָחָם

### Glosses

Egyptian (1); vulture (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

carrion-vulture [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7360/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

carrion-vulture [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7360/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] carrion-vulture;—abs. הָר׳ Lv 11:18 (Sam. רחמה; so perhaps read) = הָרָחָ֫מָה ‖ Dt 14:17 (on accent v. Dr; cf. Ges§ 90f).

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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 (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רָחָם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7360/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.18/)

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וְאֶת־הַתִּנְשֶׁ֥מֶת וְאֶת־הַקָּאָ֖ת וְאֶת־הָרָחָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.barn owl and (et) the.desert owl and (et) the.Egyptian vulture

*JPS 1917:* and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture;

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[Deuteronomy 14:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.17/)

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וְהַקָּאָ֥ת וְאֶֽת־הָרָחָ֖מָה וְאֶת־הַשָּׁלָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and the.desert owl and (et) the Egyptian vulture and (et) the cormorant

*JPS 1917:* and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;

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