Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7574
רֶתֶם
rethemreh'-them
broom
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7574is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7574
the Spanish broom (from its pole-like stems)
The King James renders it: juniper (tree).
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
rethem is rendered "broom". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
1 Kings 19:4רֹ֣תֶם
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
- a broom plant2
- broom plants2
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 4, 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
- רֹ֣תֶם2
- רְתָמִ֣ים1
- רְתָמִֽים׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
1 Kings
two uses
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- רֹ֣תֶםrotemnoun · masculine singulartagged: a broom plant
Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
- רֹ֣תֶםrotemnoun · masculine singulartagged: a broom plant
Job
one use
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
- רְתָמִ֣יםretamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: broom plants
Psalms
one use
Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
- רְתָמִֽים׃retamimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: broom plants
The letters
Gematria 640· 1,200 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.