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title: רֹךְ — tender · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רֹךְ (7391), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: tender. BDB 1906: tenderness, delicacy. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רֹךְ

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«רֹךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tender** — 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:** 7391 · **BDB:** רֹךְ

### Glosses

gentleness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tender [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7391/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

tenderness, delicacy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7391/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] tenderness, delicacy;—of delicately-nurtured woman, מֵהִתְעַנֵּג וּמֵרֹךְ Dt 28:56.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רֹךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7391/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 28:56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.56/)

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הָרַכָּ֨ה בְךָ֜ וְהָעֲנֻגָּ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹא־נִסְּתָ֤ה כַף־רַגְלָהּ֙ הַצֵּ֣ג עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ מֵהִתְעַנֵּ֖ג וּמֵרֹ֑ךְ תֵּרַ֤ע עֵינָהּ֙ בְּאִ֣ישׁ חֵיקָ֔הּ וּבִבְנָ֖הּ וּבְבִתָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* the.gentle \[woman\] among you and the.delicate \[woman\] who not she.has.attempted the.sole her.foot her to.place on the ground because was.delicate and from gentleness it.will.be.evil eye her on the.husband her.bosom her and on son her and on daughter her

*JPS 1917:* The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter;

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