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title: רָצוֹן — goodwill · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָצוֹן (7522), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 56 times: goodwill. BDB 1906: goodwill, favour, acceptance, will. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָצוֹן

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«רָצוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **goodwill** — 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:** 56 times · **Key:** 7522 · **BDB:** רָצוֹן

### Glosses

favor (13); acceptance (11); to (7)

### Meaning (OSHB)

goodwill [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7522/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

goodwill, favour, acceptance, will [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7522/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] goodwill, favour, acceptance, will;—abs. ר׳ Dt 33:23 +; cstr. רְצוֹן ψ 145:19 +; sf. רְצוֹנִי Is 60:10, רְצֹנוֹ Dn 8:4 +, etc.;— goodwill, favour: of God, Dt 33:16; Is 60:10 ψ 5:13; 30:6, 8; 51:20; 89:18; 106:4; Pr 8:35; 12:2; 18:22; עֵת ר׳ Is 49:8 ψ 69:14; יוֹם ר׳ Is 58:5; שְׁנַת־ר׳ Is 61:2; ‖ בְּרָכָה Dt 33:23; opp. תּוֹעֵכָה Pr 11:1, 20; 12:22; 15:8. of men: in gen. Pr 10:32; 11:27; 14:9; of kings v 35 16:13, 15; 19:12. acceptance, of persons, offering sacrifice, לרצון לפני יהוה Ex 28:38 (P); c. ל pers. for acceptance for him before י׳; c. sf. pers. לרצנוֹ Lv 1:3; abbrev. לְרָצוֹן לָכֶם 22:20, לרצנכם 19:5; 22:19, 29; 23:11, לרצון 22:21 Is 56:7; Je 6:20 ψ 19:15 (of words; cf. Ho 14:3); על רצון Is 60:7 (read לְ, so Codd., v. Gi, also Du), רצון Mal 2:13. will, desire, pleasure: of God, עשׂה ר׳ do his will Ezr 10:11 ψ 40:9; 103:21; 143:10. of man, עשׂה כרצונוֹ do according to his will, exactly as he pleased, Dn 8:4; 11:3, 16, 36; Ne 9:24; Est 1:8; 9:5, cf. Ne 9:37; desire ψ 145:16, 19 2 Ch 15:15; = self-will Gn 49:6 (poem).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 56 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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 «רָצוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7522/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 14:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.9/)

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אֱ֭וִלִים יָלִ֣יץ אָשָׁ֑ם וּבֵ֖ין יְשָׁרִ֣ים רָצֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* fools he.mocks guilt and.\[is\] between upright.\[people\] favor

*JPS 1917:* Amends pleadeth for fools; but among the upright there is good will.

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[Proverbs 16:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.13/)

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רְצ֣וֹן מְ֭לָכִים שִׂפְתֵי־צֶ֑דֶק וְדֹבֵ֖ר יְשָׁרִ֣ים יֶאֱהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* \[are.the\].delight of.kings lips of.righteousness and \[one.who\].speaks upright.\[things\] he.loves

*JPS 1917:* Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

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