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title: רָכַל — go about · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָכַל (7402), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: go about. BDB 1906: vb. go about. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָכַל

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«רָכַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **go about** — 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:** 17 times · **Key:** 7402 · **BDB:** רָכַל

### Glosses

\[were\].your (5); traders (4); the.traders (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

go about [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7402/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. go about [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7402/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. prob. go about, from one to another (for trade or gossip) (? connected with רגל; cf. Arabic رَكَلَ kick a horse, to make him go \[? proposes use the foot, cf. رجل ?\]; NH רוֹכֵל, Aramaic רוֹכְלָא, ܪܰܟܳܠܴܐ trader, NH רְכִילוּת slander \[cf. مَشَى calumniator, from مَاشٍ go about, Qor 2:19 al.\]);— Pt. רוֹכֵל Ct 3:6; fs. cstr. רֹכֶ֫לֶת Ez 27:3, sf. רֹכַלְתֵּךְ v 20, 23; mpl. רֹכְלִים 1 K 10:15 +, etc.;—as subst. = trafficker, trader: usually pl., Na 3:16; Ez 17:4 (עִיר ר׳), 27:13, 15, 17, 22(×2), 23a (24 Ne 3:31, 32; 13:20 (+ מֹכְרֵי כָל־מִמְכָּר); מִסְחַר הָר׳ 1 K 10:15 (text dub.; cf. מ׳, p. 695); sg. fig. of Tyre, רֹכֶלֶת הָעַמִּים אֶל־אִיִּים רַבִּים Ez 27:3, of a people v 20, 23b (pl. MezḤarran 34 Krae, v. also כִּלְמָד); sg. of pers. only אַבְקַת רוֹכֵל Ct 3:6.

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רָכַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7402/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 27:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.20/)

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דְּדָן֙ רֹֽכַלְתֵּ֔ךְ בְבִגְדֵי־חֹ֖פֶשׁ לְרִכְבָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* Dedan \[was\].your trader for clothes of.material for riding

*JPS 1917:* Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.

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[Ezekiel 27:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.23/)

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חָרָ֤ן וְכַנֵּה֙ וָעֶ֔דֶן רֹכְלֵ֖י שְׁבָ֑א אַשּׁ֖וּר כִּלְמַ֥ד רֹכַלְתֵּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* Haran and Canneh and Eden the.traders of.Sheba Asshur Chilmad \[was\].your trader

*JPS 1917:* Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur was as thine apprentice in traffic.

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