רֵחֶה
re.cheh
“millstone”
Definition
a mill-stone
from an unused root meaning to pulverize;
- handmills 1a) a pair of millstones for grinding
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
רֵחֶה appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
Take millstones and grind flour;remove your veil;strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,and wade through the streams.
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
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