Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7353
רָחֵל
rachelraw-kale'
ewe
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râchêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7353is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7353
a ewe (the females being the predominant element of a flock) (as a good traveller)
The King James renders it: ewe, sheep.
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
rachel is rendered "ewe". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:38I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
Genesis 31:38רְחֵלֶ֥יךָ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and like a ewe1
- ewes1
- ewes your1
- the ewes1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| רָחֵק | racheq | removed | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- הָֽרְחֵלִ֔ים1
- וּכְרָחֵ֕ל1
- רְחֵלֶ֥יךָ1
- רְחֵלִ֥ים1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular1HC/R/Ncfsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp2ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Genesis
two uses
I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
- רְחֵלֶ֥יךָrecheleikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: ewes your
200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,
- רְחֵלִ֥יםrechelimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: ewes
Song of Solomon
one use
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
- הָֽרְחֵלִ֔יםharechelimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the ewes
Isaiah
one use
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- וּכְרָחֵ֕לukherachelconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and like a ewe
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.