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title: רָטֹב — moist · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָטֹב (7373), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: moist. BDB 1906: adj. moist, juicy, fresh. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָטֹב

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«רָטֹב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **moist** — 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:** 7373 · **BDB:** רָטֹב

### Glosses

\[is\].a.fresh.\[plant\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

moist [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7373/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. moist, juicy, fresh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7373/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. moist, juicy, fresh;—ר׳ הוּא לִפְנֵי־שָׁ֑מֶשׁ Jb 8:16.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רָטֹב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7373/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 8:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.16/)

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רָטֹ֣ב ה֭וּאלִפְנֵי־שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וְעַ֥ל גַּ֝נָּת֗וֹ יֹֽנַקְתּ֥וֹתֵצֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.fresh.\[plant\] he before \[the\].sun and over garden its shoot\[s\] its.young it.goes.out

*JPS 1917:* He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.

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