yareach · moon

What it means

yareach (יָרֵחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “moon”.

How to say it

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

1. The light of the night, which changes shape and marks the month.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×8
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Joel×3
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 37:9

  He dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream: look, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down before me.”

• Deuteronomy 4:19

  And so that you do not lift up your eyes to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them; YHWH your Elohim has allotted them to all the peoples under all the heavens.

• Deuteronomy 17:3

  and has gone and served other gods and bowed down to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the army of the heavens, which I have not commanded,

• Joshua 10:12

  Then Joshua spoke to YHWH on the day when YHWH gave up the Amorite before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the valley of Aijalon.”

• Joshua 10:13

  And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Is it not written in the book of the Upright? The sun stopped in the middle of the heavens and did not hurry to go down for about a whole day.

• 2 Kings 23:5

  He put an end to the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem, and to those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the army of the heavens.

• Job 25:5

  Look, even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;

• Job 31:26

  if I looked at the light when it shone, and the moon moving in splendor,

• Psalms 8:3

  When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established,

• Psalms 72:5

  They will fear you as long as there is sun, and before the moon, generation after generation.

• Psalms 72:7

  May the righteous flourish in his days, and abundance of peace until there is no moon.

• Psalms 89:37

  like the moon it will be established forever, and the witness in the cloud is faithful.” Selah.

• Psalms 104:19

  He made the moon for the appointed times; the sun knows its setting.

• Psalms 121:6

  By day the sun will not strike you, nor the moon by night.

• Psalms 136:9

  the moon and stars for dominion over the night, for his loyal love is forever.

• Psalms 148:3

  Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all stars of light.

• Ecclesiastes 12:2

  before the sun is darkened, and the light, and the moon and the stars, and the clouds return after the rain;

• Isaiah 13:10

  For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will be darkened at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

• Isaiah 60:19

  The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness will the moon give you light; but YHWH will be your eternal light, and your Elohim will be your beauty.

• Jeremiah 8:2

  and they will spread them out before the sun and the moon and all the army of the heavens, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked and which they have sought and to which they have bowed down. They will not be gathered or buried; as dung on the face of the ground they will be.

• Jeremiah 31:35

  Thus says YHWH, who gives the sun for light by day, the statutes of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; YHWH Tsevaot is his name:

• Ezekiel 32:7

  And when I extinguish you I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; the sun with a cloud I will cover, and the moon will not make its light shine.

• Joel 2:10

  Before it the earth quakes, the heavens shake; sun and moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.

• Joel 2:31

  The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the day of YHWH, the great and fearsome day.

• Joel 3:15

  Sun and moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.

• Habakkuk 3:11

  The sun, the moon stood still in their lofty dwelling; at the light of your arrows they go to and fro, at the brightness of the lightning of your spear.