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title: רֵכָב — Rechab · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רֵכָב (7394), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: Rechab. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רֵכָב

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«רֵכָב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Rechab** — 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:** 13 times · **Key:** 7394 · **BDB:** רֵכָב

### Glosses

of.Rechab (8); Rechab (4); \[was\].Rechab (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Rechab [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7394/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7394/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (bond of riders? cf. Arabic رِكَابٌ camels used in journeying);— Ρηχαβ: in יְהוֹנָדָב בֶּן־ר׳ (Jehu’s time, v. יְהו׳) 2 K 10:15, 23, whose descendants \[or, the members of whose society, RSK 15, yet v NöZMG xl (1886), 171\] were contemp. with Jerem., Je 35:6, 8, 14, 16, 19; 1 Ch 2:55 הַקִּינִים (v. קֵינִי) are said to be descended from Ḥammath, אֲבִי בֵית־רֵכָב.—On the asceticism of diff. tribes cf. Diodxix. 94 (Nabataeans), PalmerDesert 432 (Kheibarí Jews in Arabia); v. also BertholStellung Isr. zu d. Fremden 80. (perhaps = a, so EMeyEntstehung 147) in מַלְכִּיָּה בֶן־ר׳ Ne 3:14. in Benjamin, 2 S 4:2 (Ρηχαβ), v 5, 6, 9 (Ρεκχα; A 𝔊L Ρηχαβ in all).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רֵכָב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7394/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 2:55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.55/)

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וּמִשְׁפְּח֤וֹת סֹפְרִים֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י יַעְבֵּ֔ץ תִּרְעָתִ֥ים שִׁמְעָתִ֖ים שׂוּכָתִ֑ים הֵ֚מָּה הַקִּינִ֣ים הַבָּאִ֔ים מֵחַמַּ֖ת אֲבִ֥י בֵית־רֵכָֽב׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] clans of.\[the\].Sophrites \[who.were\].dwelling of.Jabez \[were.the\].Tirathites \[the\].Shimeathites \[the\].Sucathites they \[were\].the Kenites \[who\] came from Hammath the.father of.Beth Rechab

*JPS 1917:* And the families of scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

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[2 Samuel 4:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.6/)

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וְ֠הֵנָּה בָּ֜אוּ עַד־תּ֤וֹךְ הַבַּ֙יִת֙ לֹקְחֵ֣י חִטִּ֔ים וַיַּכֻּ֖הוּ אֶל־הַחֹ֑מֶשׁ וְרֵכָ֛ב וּבַעֲנָ֥ה אָחִ֖יו נִמְלָֽטוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.\[fem\] they.came to the.middle of the.house taking (of).wheat(s) and they struck.him into the belly and Rechab and Baanah brother his they.escaped

*JPS 1917:* And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him in the groin; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

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