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title: רֶפֶת — stable · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רֶפֶת (7517), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: stable. BDB 1906: stable, stall. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רֶפֶת

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«רֶפֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stable** — 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:** 7517 · **BDB:** רֶ֫פֶת

### Glosses

stalls (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stable [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7517/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

stable, stall [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7517/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] appar. stable, stall (NH id.; √ dub.; Thes from רפף, cf. Arabic رَفٌّ enclosure for sheep and goats, but no satisfactory meaning of רפף known);—pl. רְפָתִים Hb 3:17 (for cattle).

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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 (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רֶפֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7517/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Habakkuk 3:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.17/)

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כִּֽי־תְאֵנָ֣ה לֹֽא־תִפְרָ֗ח וְאֵ֤ין יְבוּל֙ בַּגְּפָנִ֔ים כִּחֵשׁ֙ מַעֲשֵׂה־זַ֔יִת וּשְׁדֵמ֖וֹת לֹא־עָ֣שָׂה אֹ֑כֶל גָּזַ֤ר מִמִּכְלָה֙ צֹ֔אן וְאֵ֥ין בָּקָ֖ר בָּרְפָתִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[the\].fig.tree not it.buds and there.\[is\].not produce on the vines it.fails \[the\].product of.\[the\].olive.tree and fields not it.produces food someone.cuts.off from.\[the\] fold \[the\].flock and there.\[are\].not cattle in the stalls

*JPS 1917:* For though the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls;

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