Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7347
רֵחֶה
rechehray-kheh'
millstone
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: rêcheh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7347is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7347
a mill-stone
The King James renders it: mill (stone).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
recheh is rendered "millstone". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- One of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 11:5and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
Exodus 11:5הָרֵחָ֑יִם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in five of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a hand-mill3
- in the hand-mill1
- the hand-mill1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- רֵחַ֖יִם3
- בָרֵחַ֗יִם1
- הָרֵחָ֑יִם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine dual3HNcmda
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine dual1HRd/Ncmda
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine dual1HTd/Ncmda
Exodus
one use
and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
- הָרֵחָ֑יִםharechayimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine dualtagged: the hand-mill
Numbers
one use
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
- בָרֵחַ֗יִםvarechayimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine dualtagged: in the hand-mill
Deuteronomy
one use
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
- רֵחַ֖יִםrechayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: a hand-mill
Isaiah
one use
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- רֵחַ֖יִםrechayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: a hand-mill
Jeremiah
one use
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
- רֵחַ֖יִםrechayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: a hand-mill
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.