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title: רִיק — make empty · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רִיק (lemma:רִיק), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 19 times: make empty. BDB 1906: vb. make empty, empty out. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רִיק

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«רִיק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **make empty** — 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:** 19 times · **Key:** lemma:רִיק · **BDB:** רִיק

### Glosses

I.will.draw (5); they.will.draw (2); I (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

make empty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b4_5d9_5e7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. make empty, empty out [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b4_5d9_5e7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. make empty, empty out (Arabic رَاقَ (ى) pour out, forth, intrans. (of water, blood, etc.); Aramaic רִיק empty, pour, ܪܳܩ in deriv.; Assyrian rêḳu, empty);—Pf. 1 s. הֲרִיקֹ֫תִי Lv 26:33 Mal 3:10; 3 pl. הֵרִיקוּ Ez 28:7; 30:11; Impf. 3 ms. יָרִיק Hb 1:17, וַיָּ֫רֶק Gn 14:14 (but v. infr.); Imv. ms. הָרֵק ψ 35:3; Inf. cstr. הָרִיק Is 32:6; Pt. pl. מְרִיקִים Gn 42:35 Zc 4:12;— empty vessels Gn 42:35 (E) Je 48:12; keep empty, לְהָרִיק נֶפֶשׁ רָעֵב Is 32:6 (i.e. keep hungry). pour out or down, rain Mal 3:10 Ec 11:3, oil Zc 4:12. empty out (i.e. draw) sword (cf. Assyrian kakkê ittabbaku \[pass.\], DlHWB 699 b) Ex 15:9 (poem), Lv 26:33 (H), Ez 5:2, 12; 12:14; 28:7; 30:11; prob. also Hb 1:17 (חרבו for חרמוֹ Gie We Now); of lance ψ 35:3; cf. (si vera l.) וירק חניכיו Gn 14:14 (R) led forth, וַיָּ֫דֶק (Aramaic דּוּק Aph. look) i.e. mustered 𝔊 cf. Di al., ויפקד Ball.—In ψ 18:43 𝔊 𝔖 Hup-Now Bae read אֲדִקֵּם; so ‖ 2 S 22:43 MT; but De Dr אֲרִיקֵם (v. דקק). be emptied out from vessel: Pf. 3 ms. הוּרַק Je 48:11; Impf. 2 ms. תּוּרַק Ct 1:3 (al. 3 fs.; of ointment, in sim.); cf. also Am 6:6, where Oort מוּרְקֵי for מִזְרְקֵי.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רִיק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b4_5d9_5e7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 18:43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.43/)

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וְֽאֶשְׁחָקֵ֗ם כְּעָפָ֥ר עַל־פְּנֵי־ר֑וּחַ כְּטִ֖יט חוּצ֣וֹת אֲרִיקֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I beat.them.fine like dust on \[the\].face of.\[the\].wind like.\[the\] mud of.\[the\].streets I poured.them.out

*JPS 1917:* Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

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[Habakkuk 1:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.17/)

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הַ֥עַל כֵּ֖ן יָרִ֣יק חֶרְמ֑וֹ וְתָמִ֛יד לַהֲרֹ֥ג גּוֹיִ֖ם לֹ֥א יַחְמֽוֹל׃ס

*Word for word:* ? there- fore will.he.empty net his and continually to kill nations not will.he.spare?

*JPS 1917:* Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?

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