rach · tender

What it means

rach (רַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tender”.

Soft; also delicate or weak.

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. Delicate, like a child.
2. Fainthearted, weak in spirit.
3. Gentle and without harshness, said of words.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• tender ×9
• soft ×5
• who is the tenderest ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Deuteronomy×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 18:7

  And to the herd Abraham ran, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the young man, who hurried to prepare it.

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel was beautiful in form and beautiful in appearance.

• Genesis 33:13

  He said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the cattle that are nursing their young are in my care; if they are driven hard one day, all the flock will die.

• Deuteronomy 20:8

  And the supervisors shall speak further to the people and say, “Who is the man who is afraid and soft of heart? Let him go and return to his house, so that the heart of his brothers does not melt like his heart.”

• Deuteronomy 28:54

  The man who is the tenderest among you and very refined will look with an evil eye on his brother and on the wife of his bosom and on the rest of his children whom he has left,

• Deuteronomy 28:56

  The woman who is the tenderest among you and the most refined, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicacy and tenderness, will look with an evil eye on the husband of her bosom and on her son and on her daughter,

• 2 Samuel 3:39

  And I am soft today, though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are harder than I. May YHWH repay the one who does evil according to his evil!”

• 1 Chronicles 22:5

  David said, “Solomon my son is a youth and tender, and the house that is to be built for YHWH must be made great exceedingly, for renown and for beauty in all the lands. Let me now prepare it for him.” So David prepared in abundance before his death.

• 1 Chronicles 29:1

  King David said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, the only one Elohim has chosen, is a youth and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man but for YHWH Elohim.

• 2 Chronicles 13:7

  Empty men, worthless fellows, gathered around him and made themselves strong against Rehoboam son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender of heart, and he did not hold firm before them.

• Job 41:3

  Will it multiply supplications to you, or will it speak to you soft words?

• Proverbs 4:3

  For I was a son to my father, tender and only before my mother.

• Proverbs 15:1

  A soft answer turns back wrath, but a hurtful word stirs up anger.

• Proverbs 25:15

  By patience a ruler is persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks bone.

• Isaiah 47:1

  “Go down and sit on the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans; for they will not again call you tender and delicate.

• Ezekiel 17:22

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: ‘And I myself will take from the top of the lofty cedar and set it; from the tip of its shoots a tender one I will pluck off, and I myself will plant it on a mountain high and steep.