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title: רֶכֶס — roughness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רֶכֶס (7406), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: roughness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רֶכֶס

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«רֶכֶס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **roughness** — 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:** 7406 · **BDB:** רֶ֫כֶס

### Glosses

places (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

roughness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7406/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dub.; perhaps roughness (of ground;? lit. binding, knot); or bound up, impeded, i.e. the impassable; or mountain-chain (v. Thes);—pl. הָֽרְכָסִים Is 40:4 (‖ הֶעַקֹב; opp. בִּקְעָה).

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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 (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 «רֶכֶס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7406/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 40:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.4/)

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כָּל־גֶּיא֙ יִנָּשֵׂ֔א וְכָל־הַ֥ר וְגִבְעָ֖ה יִשְׁפָּ֑לוּ וְהָיָ֤ה הֶֽעָקֹב֙ לְמִישׁ֔וֹר וְהָרְכָסִ֖ים לְבִקְעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* every valley it.will.be.lifted.up and every mountain and hill they.will.become.low and it.will.become the.steep \[place\] (into).level ground and the.rough places (into).a plain

*JPS 1917:* Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the rugged shall be made level, and the rough places a plain;

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