Grow With Me
Grow With Me

רֶחֶם

rechem · womb

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7358 · appears 26 times in the Bible

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What it means

rechem (רֶחֶם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “womb”.

How to say it

re·chem

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 part of a mother's body where the child grows before birth.
  2. The first young or first child born to a mother.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 20:18

    For YHWH had completely closed every womb in the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

  • Genesis 29:31

    YHWH saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

  • Genesis 30:22

    Elohim remembered Rachel, and Elohim heard her and opened her womb.

  • Exodus 13:2

    “Consecrate to me every firstborn; the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, of people and of animals, is mine.”

  • Exodus 13:12

    you shall dedicate to YHWH every first offspring of the womb, and every first offspring of the young of animals that you have; the males shall be YHWH’s.

  • Exodus 13:15

    When Pharaoh hardened himself against letting us go, YHWH killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of people and the firstborn of animals. That is why I sacrifice to YHWH every first offspring of the womb that is male, but every firstborn of my sons I ransom.’

  • Exodus 34:19

    Everything that first opens the womb is mine, and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of ox and lamb.

  • Numbers 3:12

    “And I, look, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel in place of every firstborn, the first to open the womb among the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine.

  • Numbers 8:16

    For they are given, wholly given to me from among the sons of Israel; in place of all that first open the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them for myself.

  • Numbers 12:12

    Please do not let her be like the dead one who, when he comes out of the womb of his mother, has half his flesh eaten away.”

  • Numbers 18:15

    Every firstborn of the womb of all flesh, which they present to YHWH, whether of human beings or of livestock, shall be yours; but you shall surely redeem the firstborn of human beings, and the firstborn of unclean livestock you shall redeem.

  • 1 Samuel 1:5

    but to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, though YHWH had closed her womb.

  • 1 Samuel 1:6

    And her rival would provoke her bitterly in order to irritate her, because YHWH had closed up her womb.

  • Job 3:11

    Why did I not die from the womb, come out from the belly and expire?

  • Job 10:18

    Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I would have expired, and no eye would have seen me.

  • Job 24:20

    The womb forgets him; the worms savor him; he is no longer remembered, and injustice is broken like a tree.

  • Job 31:15

    Did not the one who made me in the womb make him? And did not one form us in the womb?

  • Job 38:8

    And who shut in the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out from the womb,

  • Psalms 22:10

    Upon you I was cast from the womb; from the belly of my mother you are my El.

  • Psalms 58:3

    The wicked have turned aside from the womb; they have gone astray from the belly, those who speak lies.

  • Psalms 110:3

    Your people are freewill offerings in the day of your power, in splendors of holiness; from the womb of the dawn, to you belongs the dew of your youth.

  • Jeremiah 1:5

    “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I consecrated you; a prophet to the nations I appointed you.”

  • Jeremiah 20:17

    because he did not kill me from the womb, so that my mother would have been to me my grave, and her womb pregnant forever.

  • Jeremiah 20:18

    Why did I come out from the womb to see suffering and sorrow, and that my days should be consumed in shame?

  • Hosea 9:14

    Give them, YHWH; what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

And 1 more times.