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title: רְפִידָה — support · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רְפִידָה (7507), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: support. BDB 1906: n.f. support. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רְפִידָה

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«רְפִידָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **support** — 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:** 7507 · **BDB:** רְפִידָה

### Glosses

back (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

support [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7507/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. support [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7507/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. perhaps support (cf. Arabic supr.), i.e. back, or arm, of palanquin; sf. רְפִידָתוֹ Ct 3:10; 𝔊 ἀνάκλιτον, 𝔙 reclinatorium.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רְפִידָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7507/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 3:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.3.10/)

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עַמּוּדָיו֙ עָ֣שָׂה כֶ֔סֶף רְפִידָת֣וֹ זָהָ֔ב מֶרְכָּב֖וֹ אַרְגָּמָ֑ן תּוֹכוֹ֙ רָצ֣וּף אַהֲבָ֔ה מִבְּנ֖וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* posts its he.made silver back its gold seat its purple.wool middle its \[was\].fitted.out leather from the.daughters of.Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* He made the pillars thereof of silver, the top thereof of gold, the seat of it of purple, the inside thereof being inlaid with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.

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