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Hebrew verb · H7364

רָחַץ

rachatsraw-khats'

to wash: wash

72 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: râchats

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7364is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 18 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 45
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7364

to lave (the whole or a part of a thing)

The King James renders it: bathe (self), wash (self).

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

rachats is rendered "to wash: wash". It stands 72 times in the Hebrew text, across eighteen books.

  • Twenty-six of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:4Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-five different ways.

The first use

Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

Genesis 18:4וְרַחֲצ֖וּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty-six of the word's seventy-two uses are in Leviticus.

The other 21 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he will wash21
  • and you will wash5
  • he will wash4
  • to wash4
  • and he washed3
  • and they washed3
  • and they will wash3
  • and wash3
  • for washing2
  • they will wash2
  • wash2
  • and he bathed1

and 19 more, 72 uses in all

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.

רָחַקrachaqto removeUses57
רָחַםrachamto have compassionUses47
רָחַבrachabto enlargeUses25
רָחַףrachaphbe weakUses3
רָחַשׁrachashto overflowUses1

All 72, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

45 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

  • וְרָחַ֥ץ16
  • וַיִּרְחַ֥ץ3
  • יִרְחַ֣ץ3
  • וְרָחַ֤ץ2
  • וְרָחַ֧ץ2
  • וְרָחֲצ֛וּ2
  • וְרָחֲצ֣וּ2
  • וְרָחַצְתָּ֥2
  • וְרָחַצְתָּ֤2
  • לִרְחֹ֣ץ2
  • רָחַ֣ץ2
  • אֶרְחַ֣ץ1

and 33 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqq3ms21Hc/Vqq3ms
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)8HR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVqi3ms
  • Hc/Vqq2ms4Hc/Vqq2ms
  • Hc/Vqq3cp4Hc/Vqq3cp
  • Hc/Vqw3ms4Hc/Vqw3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HC/Vqv2mp
  • Hc/Vqw3mp2Hc/Vqw3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqi1cs
  • Hc/Vqq2fs1Hc/Vqq2fs

Genesis

five uses
  • Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

    Genesis 18:4

    • וְרַחֲצ֖וּverachatzuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and wash
  • and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

    Genesis 19:2

    • וְרַחֲצ֣וּverachatzuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and wash
  • So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.

    Genesis 24:32

    • לִרְחֹ֣ץlirchotzpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wash
  • And the steward took the men into Joseph’s house, gave them water to wash their feet, and provided food for their donkeys.

    Genesis 43:24

    • וַיִּרְחֲצ֣וּvaiyirchatzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they washed
  • Then he washed his face and came back out. Regaining his composure, he said, “Serve the meal.”

    Genesis 43:31

    • וַיִּרְחַ֥ץvaiyirchatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he washed

Exodus

eleven uses
  • Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.

    Exodus 2:5

    • לִרְחֹ֣ץlirchotzpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to bathe
  • Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

    Exodus 29:4

    • וְרָחַצְתָּ֥verachatztaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will wash
  • Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.

    Exodus 29:17

    • וְרָחַצְתָּ֤verachatztaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will wash
  • “You are to make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. Set it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it,

    Exodus 30:18

    • לְרָחְצָ֑הlerachetzahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: for washing
  • with which Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet.

    Exodus 30:19

    • וְרָחֲצ֛וּverachatzuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will wash
  • Whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister by presenting an offering made by fire to the LORD, they must wash with water so that they will not die.

    Exodus 30:20

    • יִרְחֲצוּ־yirchatzu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will wash
  • Thus they are to wash their hands and feet so that they will not die; this shall be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”

    Exodus 30:21

    • וְרָחֲצ֛וּverachatzuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will wash
  • Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

    Exodus 40:12

    • וְרָחַצְתָּ֥verachatztaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will wash
  • He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing;

    Exodus 40:30

    • לְרָחְצָֽה׃lerachetzahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: for washing
  • and from it Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and feet.

    Exodus 40:31

    • וְרָחֲצ֣וּverachatzuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they washed
  • They washed whenever they entered the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    Exodus 40:32

    • יִרְחָ֑צוּyirchatzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they washed

Leviticus

twenty-six uses
  • The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 1:9

    • יִרְחַ֣ץyirchatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will wash
  • The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall bring all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

    Leviticus 1:13

    • יִרְחַ֣ץyirchatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will wash
  • Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.

    Leviticus 8:6

    • וַיִּרְחַ֥ץvaiyirchatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he washed
  • He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    Leviticus 8:21

    • רָחַ֣ץrachatzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he washed
  • He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them atop the burnt offering on the altar.

    Leviticus 9:14

    • וַיִּרְחַ֥ץvaiyirchatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he washed
  • The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

    Leviticus 14:8

    • וְרָחַ֤ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.

    Leviticus 14:9

    • וְרָחַ֧ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:5

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • Whoever sits on furniture on which the man with the discharge was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:6

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:7

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • If the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:8

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:10

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands with water, the one who was touched must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:11

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • When the man has been cleansed from his discharge, he must count off seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe himself in fresh water, and he shall be clean.

    Leviticus 15:13

    • וְרָחַ֧ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:16

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:18

    • וְרָחֲצ֣וּverachatzuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will wash
  • and anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:21

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • Whoever touches any furniture on which she was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:22

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

    Leviticus 15:27

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • He is to wear the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments. He must tie a linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are holy garments, and he must bathe himself with water before he wears them.

    Leviticus 16:4

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • He is to bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering to make atonement for himself and for the people.

    Leviticus 16:24

    • וְרָחַ֨ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • The man who released the goat as the scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

    Leviticus 16:26

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

    Leviticus 16:28

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

    Leviticus 17:15

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”

    Leviticus 17:16

    • יִרְחָ֑ץyirchatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will wash
  • the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.

    Leviticus 22:6

    • רָחַ֥ץrachatzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has washed

Numbers

three uses
  • Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

    Numbers 19:7

    • וְרָחַ֤ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

    Numbers 19:8

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash
  • The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.

    Numbers 19:19

    • וְרָחַ֥ץverachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wash

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,

    Deuteronomy 21:6

    • יִרְחֲצוּ֙yirchatzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will wash
  • When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.

    Deuteronomy 23:11

    • יִרְחַ֣ץyirchatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will wash

Judges

one use
  • So he brought him to his house and fed his donkeys. And they washed their feet and ate and drank.

    Judges 19:21

    • וַֽיִּרְחֲצוּ֙vaiyirchatzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they washed

Ruth

one use
  • Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

    Ruth 3:3

    • וְרָחַ֣צְתְּ׀verachatztHc/Vqq2fstagged: and you will wash

1 Samuel

one use
  • She arose, then bowed facedown and said, “Here is your maidservant, ready to serve and to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”

    1 Samuel 25:41

    • לִרְחֹ֕ץlirchotzpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wash

2 Samuel

three uses
  • One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

    2 Samuel 11:2

    • רֹחֶ֖צֶתrochetzetverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: bathing
  • Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.

    2 Samuel 11:8

    • וּרְחַ֣ץurechatzconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and wash
  • Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.

    2 Samuel 12:20

    • וַיִּרְחַ֣ץvaiyirchatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he bathed

1 Kings

one use
  • And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.

    1 Kings 22:38

    • רָחָ֑צוּrachatzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they bathed

2 Kings

three uses
  • Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”

    2 Kings 5:10

    • וְרָחַצְתָּ֤verachatztaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will wash
  • Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

    2 Kings 5:12

    • אֶרְחַ֥ץʾerchatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I wash
  • Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?”

    2 Kings 5:13

    • רְחַ֥ץrechatzverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: wash

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.

    2 Chronicles 4:6

    • לְרָחְצָ֣הlerachetzahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wash
    • לְרָחְצָ֥הlerachetzahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wash

Job

two uses
  • If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

    Job 9:30

    • הִתְרָחַ֥צְתִּיhitrachatztiverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I washed myself
  • when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

    Job 29:6

    • בִּרְחֹ֣ץbirchotzpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when bathed

Psalms

three uses
  • I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

    Psalms 26:6

    • אֶרְחַ֣ץʾerchatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I wash
  • The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

    Psalms 58:10

    • יִ֝רְחַ֗ץyirchatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will bathe
  • Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

    Psalms 73:13

    • וָאֶרְחַ֖ץvaerchatzHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I have washed

Proverbs

one use
  • There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

    Proverbs 30:12

    • רֻחָֽץ׃ruchatzverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been washed

Song of Solomon

two uses
  • I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?

    Song of Solomon 5:3

    • רָחַ֥צְתִּיrachatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have washed
  • His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.

    Song of Solomon 5:12

    • רֹֽחֲצוֹת֙rochatzotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: washing

Isaiah

two uses
  • Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

    Isaiah 1:16

    • רַחֲצוּ֙rachatzuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: wash
  • when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

    Isaiah 4:4

    • רָחַ֣ץrachatzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has washed away

Ezekiel

three uses
  • On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

    Ezekiel 16:4

    • רֻחַ֖צְתְּruchatztverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you were washed
  • Then I bathed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.

    Ezekiel 16:9

    • וָאֶרְחָצֵ֣ךְvaerchatzekhHc/Vqw1cs/Sp2fstagged: and I washed you
  • Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.

    Ezekiel 23:40

    • רָחַ֛צְתְּrachatztverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you bathed

The letters

Gematria 298· 1,108 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

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