Lexical Summary rachaph: to grow soft, relax Original Word: רָחַףTransliteration: rachaph Phonetic Spelling: (raw-khaf') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to grow soft, relax Meaning: to brood, to be relaxed Strong's Concordance flutter, move, shake A primitive root; to brood; by implication, to be relaxed -- flutter, move, shake. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7363. rachaph I. [רָחַף] verb grow soft, relax (compare Arabic be soft); — Qal Perfect3plural רָֽחֲפוּ Jeremiah 23:9 (bones of one appalled). II. רָחַף verb Pi`el hover (Late Hebrew id., compare GrünbaumZMG xxxix (1885), 607; Syriac Pa`el move Gently, also cherish, and brood, compare Thess. see; connection with I. ׳ר dubious); — Pi`el Imperfect3masculine singular עַל יְרַחֵף Deuteronomy 32:11 (poem) of vulture hovering over young; Participle א ׳רוּחַ הַמָּ֑יִם עַלמְּֿנֵי מְרַחֶפֶת Genesis 1:2 (P); hovering over face of waters, or perhaps (see Syriac) brooding (and fertilizing), so JerQuaest. in Gen. ed. Lag. 4 (reading 'marahaefeth), compare Di Gunk. |
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