Hebrew adv · H7387
רֵיקָם
reqamray-kawm'
emptily
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: rêyqâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7387is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7387
emptily; figuratively (objective) ineffectually, (subjective) undeservedly
The King James renders it: without cause, empty, in vain, void.
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
reqam is rendered "emptily". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Three of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
Genesis 31:42רֵיקָ֣ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- empty9
- emptily2
- in vain2
- and empty1
- with empty hands1
- without cause1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| רֵיק | req | worthless | Uses14 |
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- רֵיקָֽם׃9
- רֵיקָ֔ם2
- רֵיקָ֑ם2
- וְרֵיקָ֖ם1
- רֵיקָ֣ם1
- רֵיקָ֖ם1
The grammar of each form
- adverb15HD
- conjunction (“and”) + adverb1HC/D
Genesis
one use
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
- רֵיקָ֣םreikamadverbtagged: empty
Exodus
three uses
And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.
- רֵיקָֽם׃reikamadverbtagged: empty
You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
- רֵיקָֽם׃reikamadverbtagged: empty
You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.
- רֵיקָֽם׃reikamadverbtagged: empty
Deuteronomy
two uses
And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.
- רֵיקָֽם׃reikamadverbtagged: emptily
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
- רֵיקָֽם׃reikamadverbtagged: emptily
Ruth
two uses
I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
- וְרֵיקָ֖םvereikamconjunction (“and”) + adverbtagged: and empty
And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
- רֵיקָ֖םreikamadverbtagged: empty
1 Samuel
one use
They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”
- רֵיקָ֔םreikamadverbtagged: empty
2 Samuel
one use
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not retreat, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.
- רֵיקָֽם׃reikamadverbtagged: empty
Job
one use
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
- רֵיקָ֑םreikamadverbtagged: with empty hands
Psalms
two uses
if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
- רֵיקָֽם׃reikamadverbtagged: without cause
Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who are faithless without cause will be disgraced.
- רֵיקָֽם׃reikamadverbtagged: in vain
Isaiah
one use
so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
- רֵיקָ֑םreikamadverbtagged: in vain
Jeremiah
two uses
The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
- רֵיקָ֔םreikamadverbtagged: empty
For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.
- רֵיקָֽם׃reikamadverbtagged: empty
The letters
Gematria 350· 910 mispar gadol
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.