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title: רִיר — slimy juice · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רִיר (7388), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: slimy juice. BDB 1906: n.m. slimy juice, spittle. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רִיר

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«רִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **slimy juice** — 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:** 7388 · **BDB:** רִיר²

### Glosses

slime (1); spittle (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

slimy juice [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7388/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. slimy juice, spittle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7388/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. slimy juice, spittle;—cstr. בְּרִיר חַלָּמוּת Jb 6:6 in the juice of ח׳ (al. slime of yolk, i.e. white of egg); sf. רִירוֹ 1 S 21:14 his spittle.

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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 «רִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7388/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 6:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.6/)

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הֲיֵאָכֵ֣ל תָּ֭פֵל מִבְּלִי־מֶ֑לַח אִם־יֶשׁ־טַ֝֗עַם בְּרִ֣יר חַלָּמֽוּת׃

*Word for word:* is it.eaten? tasteless.\[food\] from not salt or? \[is\].there taste in.\[the\] slime of.purslane

*JPS 1917:* Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?

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[1 Samuel 21:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.21.14/)

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וַיְשַׁנּ֤וֹ אֶת־טַעְמוֹ֙ בְּעֵ֣ינֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּתְהֹלֵ֖ל בְּיָדָ֑ם וַיְתָיו֙ עַל־דַּלְת֣וֹת הַשַּׁ֔עַר וַיּ֥וֹרֶד רִיר֖וֹ אֶל־זְקָנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he changed.it (et) sense his in eyes their and he.acted.like.a.madman in hand their and he.made.marks on the.doors of the.gate and he.made.to.flow.down spittle his to beard his

*JPS 1917:* And he changed his demeanour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

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