Hebrew verb · H7488
רַעֲנָן
raananrah-an-awn'
be fresh; luxuriant
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: raʻănân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7488is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7488
verdant; by analogy, new; figuratively, prosperous
The King James renders it: green, flourishing.
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
raanan is rendered "be fresh; luxuriant". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Six of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "be fresh".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 12:2Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 12:2רַעֲנָן׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's twenty uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: be fresh, and luxuriant.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| be freshStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereDeuteronomy 12:2Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their… |
| luxuriantStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- luxuriant17
- and fresh1
- fresh1
- it will grow luxuriant1
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 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- רַעֲנָֽן׃6
- רַעֲנָ֔ן2
- רַֽעֲנָן֙2
- רַֽעֲנָ֑ן2
- וְרַֽעֲנַנִּ֣ים1
- רַ֭עֲנָן1
- רַעֲנָ֑ן1
- רַעֲנָ֖ן1
- רַֽעֲנָ֔ן1
- רַעֲנָן׃1
- רַעֲנָֽנָה׃1
- רַעֲנָנָֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular17HAamsa
- adjective · feminine singular1HAafsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Aampa
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpp3fs
Deuteronomy
one use
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- רַעֲנָן׃raananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
1 Kings
one use
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- רַעֲנָֽן׃raananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
2 Kings
two uses
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- רַעֲנָֽן׃raananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- רַעֲנָֽן׃raananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
2 Chronicles
one use
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- רַעֲנָֽן׃raananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
Job
one use
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
- רַעֲנָֽנָה׃raananahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will grow luxuriant
Psalms
four uses
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
- רַעֲנָֽן׃raananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
- רַ֭עֲנָןraanonadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.
- רַעֲנָֽן׃raananadjective · masculine singulartagged: fresh
In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
- וְרַֽעֲנַנִּ֣יםveraananimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and fresh
Song of Solomon
one use
How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
- רַעֲנָנָֽה׃raananahadjective · feminine singulartagged: luxuriant
Isaiah
one use
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- רַעֲנָ֑ןraananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
Jeremiah
six uses
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
- רַעֲנָ֔ןraananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
- רַעֲנָ֖ןraananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
- רַעֲנָ֔ןraananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
- רַֽעֲנָן֙raananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
- רַֽעֲנָ֑ןraananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
- רַֽעֲנָ֑ןraananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
Ezekiel
one use
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
- רַֽעֲנָן֙raananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
Hosea
one use
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
- רַֽעֲנָ֔ןraananadjective · masculine singulartagged: luxuriant
The letters
Gematria 370· 1,020 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.