Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #7406 - רֶכֶס rekes (perhaps roughness)

Original Word:	רֶכֶס
Transliteration:	rekes
Definition:	perhaps roughness
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(reh'-kes)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

rough place

From rakac; a mountain ridge (as of tied summits) -- rough place.

see HEBREW rakac

Englishman's Concordance

1) roughness or bound up, impeded, the impassable or mountain chain, rough place
1a) meaning dubious
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H7405
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2166a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[רֶ֫כֶס] noun [masculine] dubious; perhaps roughness (of ground; ? literally binding, knot); or bound up, impeded, i.e. the impassable; or mountain-chain (see Thes); — plural הָֽרְכָסִיםIsaiah 40:4 ("" הֶעָקֹכ; opposed to בִּקְעָה).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 7406. רְכָסִים (rekes) — 1 Occurrence
Isaiah 40:4
HEB:הֶֽעָקֹב֙ לְמִישׁ֔וֹר וְהָרְכָסִ֖ים לְבִקְעָֽה׃
NAS: a plain, And the rugged terrain a broad valley;
KJV: shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
INT: the rough A plain and the rugged A broad

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