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title: רִפְיוֹן — sinking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רִפְיוֹן (7510), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: sinking. BDB 1906: sinking. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רִפְיוֹן

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«רִפְיוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sinking** — 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:** 7510 · **BDB:** רִפָּיוֹן

### Glosses

slackness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sinking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7510/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

sinking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7510/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** Ges§ 85 u, or רִפְיוֹן Sta§ 296 d cf. Köii. 154\] n.\[m.\] sinking;—cstr. רִפְיוֹן יָדַיִם Je 47:3 sinking of hands, fig. of helpless terror.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 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 «רִפְיוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7510/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 47:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.47.3/)

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מִקּ֗וֹל שַֽׁעֲטַת֙ פַּרְס֣וֹת אַבִּירָ֔יו מֵרַ֣עַשׁ לְרִכְבּ֔וֹ הֲמ֖וֹן גַּלְגִּלָּ֑יו לֹֽא־הִפְנ֤וּ אָבוֹת֙ אֶל־בָּנִ֔ים מֵֽרִפְי֖וֹן יָדָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* from the.sound of.the.stamping of.the.hooves of its.mighty.\[horses\] from.\[the\] rattling of chariotry its the.din its.wheels his not they.have.turned.back fathers to children from slackness of.hands

*JPS 1917:* At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands;

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