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title: רָכַשׁ — collect · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָכַשׁ (7408), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: collect. BDB 1906: vb. collect, gather property. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָכַשׁ

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«רָכַשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **collect** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 7408 · **BDB:** רָכַשׁ

### Glosses

he.had.accumulated (3); they.had.accumulated (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

collect [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7408/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. collect, gather property [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7408/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. collect, gather property, vb. only P (rare) (Mand. רכש gather, NorbergLexid. 231; Assyrian rukûšu, property (HptHbr iii. 110 riding anim.); Aramaic רִכְשָׁא, ܪܰܟܫܳܐ = BH רֶכֶשׁ);— Pf. 3 ms. ר׳, acc. קִנְיָן, Gn 31:18b; 36:6; elsewhere c. acc. cogn. אֲשֶׁר רָכָ֑שׁ ׃רְכוּשׁ 31:18a, 3 pl. רָֽכְשׁוּ 46:6, רָכָ֑שׁוּ 12:5.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 «רָכַשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7408/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 46:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.6/)

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וַיִּקְח֣וּ אֶת־מִקְנֵיהֶ֗ם וְאֶת־רְכוּשָׁם֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר רָֽכְשׁוּ֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ מִצְרָ֑יְמָה יַעֲקֹ֖ב וְכָל־זַרְע֥וֹ אִתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) livestock their and (et) possession\[s\] their which they.had.accumulated in the.land of.Canaan and they.came to Egypt Jacob and all offspring his with him

*JPS 1917:* And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him;

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[Genesis 31:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.18/)

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וַיִּנְהַ֣ג אֶת־כָּל־מִקְנֵ֗הוּ וְאֶת־כָּל־רְכֻשׁוֹ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר רָכָ֔שׁ מִקְנֵה֙ קִנְיָנ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר רָכַ֖שׁ בְּפַדַּ֣נ אֲרָ֑ם פַדַּ֣נ אֲרָ֑ם לָב֛וֹא אֶל־יִצְחָ֥ק אָבִ֖יו אַ֥רְצָה כְּנָֽעַן׃

*Word for word:* and he.drove (et) all livestock his and (et) all possession\[s\] his which he.had.accumulated the.livestock his.acquisition his which he.had.accumulated in Paddan Aram to go to Isaac father his the.land to of.Canaan

*JPS 1917:* and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan.

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