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title: רִיפֹות — stable · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רִיפֹות (7383), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: stable. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רִיפֹות

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«רִיפֹות» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stable** — 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:** 7383 · **BDB:** רִיפָה

### Glosses

grain(s) (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stable [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7383/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[f.\] dub.; some grain or fruit (such as was spread out to dry (2 S), and also pounded (Pr); 𝔙2 S as if drying barley-groats, 𝔊L παλάθας, cakes of preserved fruit, cf. preparation of ‘apricot-cheese’ WetzstZPV xiv. 2 NesMarg. 18, who cites also AlmkvistKl. Beitr. zur Lexicogr. des Vulg. Ar. Actes, 419);—pl. abs. רִפוֹת 2 S 17:19, רִיפוֹת Pr 27:22.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רִיפֹות» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7383/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 27:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.22/)

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אִ֥ם תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־אֶת־הָאֱוִ֨יל ׀ בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָ֭רִיפוֹת בַּֽעֱלִ֑י לֹא־תָס֥וּר מֵ֝עָלָ֗יו אִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃פ

*Word for word:* if you.will.pound (et) the fool in (the) mortar among the grain(s) with the pestle not it.will.depart from with him foolishness his

*JPS 1917:* Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

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[2 Samuel 17:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.19/)

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וַתִּקַּ֣ח הָאִשָּׁ֗ה וַתִּפְרֹ֤שׂ אֶת־הַמָּסָךְ֙ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י הַבְּאֵ֔ר וַתִּשְׁטַ֥ח עָלָ֖יו הָֽרִפ֑וֹת וְלֹ֥א נוֹדַ֖ע דָּבָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and she.took the woman and she.spread (et) the covering over the.face of the.well and she.spread.out on it the grain(s) and not it.was.known anything

*JPS 1917:* And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed groats thereon; and nothing was known.

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