רִיר
rir · saliva, juice
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7388 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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rir (רִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “saliva, juice”.
Saliva, slime; in Job 6:6, the tasteless juice of a food.
How to say it
rir
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
- Liquid dripping from the mouth.
- A plant's sticky, tasteless juice.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- let his saliva run down ×1
- slime ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 21:13
So he changed his behavior before their eyes and pretended to be mad in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down onto his beard.
- Job 6:6
Can what is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there flavor in the slime of the purslane?