אֲרֻחָה
arucha · allowance, ration
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H737 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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arucha (אֲרֻחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “allowance, ration”.
Allowance: the portion of food given to someone for each day (2 Kings 25:30; Jeremiah 40:5). In Proverbs 15:17, a simple dish of vegetables.
How to say it
a·ru·cha
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Food allotted for each day; a simple dish.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- allowance ×4
- provisions ×1
- ration ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Kings 25:30
His allowance, a continual allowance, was given to him from the king, the portion of each day on its day, all the days of his life.
- Proverbs 15:17
Better is a ration of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
- Jeremiah 40:5
And as he had not yet turned back, he said, “Go back to Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and live with him among the people; or wherever it is right in your eyes to go, go.” And the chief of the guard gave him provisions and a gift, and let him go.
- Jeremiah 52:34
His allowance, a continual allowance, was given to him from the king of Babylon, the portion of each day on its day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
And 2 more times.