רֵחֶה
reche · millstones
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7347 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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reche (רֵחֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “millstones”.
Hand mill, made of two stones. The slave woman who grinds was the lowest in rank in the house.
How to say it
re·che
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
- Two stones for crushing grain by hand.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- millstones ×2
- handmill ×1
- mill ×1
- mills ×1
Where it appears
- Exodus 11:5
and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave woman who is behind the millstones, and every firstborn of the livestock.
- Numbers 11:8
The people would go about and gather it, and grind it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boil it in pots, and make it into cakes; and its taste was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.
- Deuteronomy 24:6
No one shall take in pledge a handmill or an upper millstone, for he would be taking in pledge a life.
- Isaiah 47:2
Take the mill and grind flour; uncover your veil, lift up the skirt, uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
- Jeremiah 25:10
And I will make perish from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.