Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #7363 - רָחַף rachaph (to grow soft)

Original Word:	רָחַף
Transliteration:	rachaph
Definition:	to grow soft, relax
Part of Speech:	Verb
Phonetic Spelling:	(raw-khaf')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

flutter, move, shake

A primitive root; to brood; by implication, to be relaxed -- flutter, move, shake.

Englishman's Concordance

1) (Qal) to grow soft, relax
2) (Piel) to hover
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2148, 2149

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [רָחַף] verbgrow soft, relax (compare Arabic

be soft); —

QalPerfect3plural רָֽחֲפוּJeremiah 23:9 (bones of one appalled).

II. רָחַףverb Pi`elhover (Late Hebrew id., compare Grünbaum^{ZMG xxxix (1885), 607}; Syriac Pa`el move Gently, also cherish, and brood, compare Thes^s. see; connection with I. ׳ר dubious); —

Pi`elImperfect3masculine singular יְרַחֵףעַלDeuteronomy 32:11 (poem) of vulture hovering over young; Participleמְרַחֶפֶת עַלמְּֿנֵי הַמָּ֑יִם׳רוּחַ אGenesis 1:2 (P); hovering over face of waters, or perhaps (see Syriac) brooding (and fertilizing), so Jer^{Quaest. in Gen. ed. Lag. 4} (reading 'marahaefeth), compare Di Gunk.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 7363. רָחַף (rachaph) — 3 Occurrences

Genesis 1:2
HEB:וְר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מְרַחֶ֖פֶת עַל־ פְּנֵ֥י
NAS: of God was moving over
KJV: of God moved upon
INT: and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface

Deuteronomy 32:11
HEB:עַל־ גּוֹזָלָ֖יו יְרַחֵ֑ף יִפְרֹ֤שׂ כְּנָפָיו֙
NAS: up its nest, That hovers over
KJV: her nest, fluttereth over her young,
INT: over young hovers spread his wings

Jeremiah 23:9
HEB:לִבִּ֣י בְקִרְבִּ֗י רָֽחֲפוּ֙ כָּל־ עַצְמוֹתַ֔י
NAS: my bones tremble; I have become
KJV: all my bones shake; I am like a drunken
INT: my heart within tremble All my bones

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