rechev · chariots

What it means

rechev (רֶכֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “chariots”.

War chariots (as a whole); also the upper millstone.

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. War chariots.
2. The upper millstone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Chariot, above all the war chariot and, collectively, the chariotry; by likeness, the upper stone of a mill. BDB: a vehicle; by implication, a team; by extension, cavalry; by analogy, the upper millstone. It comes from רָכַב, “to ride” (H7392). From the same root is מֶרְכָּבָה, chariot (H4818).

• Pharaoh's chariots Exodus 14:7Exodus 14:17
• Nine hundred chariots of iron Judges 4:3
• “Some of chariots and some of horses” Psalms 20:7
• “The chariot of Israel and its horsemen” 2 Kings 2:12
• The upper millstone Deuteronomy 24:6Judges 9:53

Historical and cultural background

Deuteronomy 24:6 forbids taking in pledge “a handmill or an upper millstone, for he would be taking in pledge a life”.

How we translate it

“Chariots” 92 times, “chariot” 24, “upper millstone” 2. פֶּלַח רֶכֶב and רֶכֶב alone in Deuteronomy 24:6 are “an upper millstone”.

How it is translated

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

• chariots ×92
• chariot ×24
• upper millstone ×2
• upper ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×10
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×4
• Judges×9
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×5
• 1 Kings×16
• 2 Kings×19
• 1 Chronicles×6
• 2 Chronicles×14
• Psalms×3
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×11
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×1
• Nahum×3
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 50:9

  There went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and the company was very large.

• Exodus 14:6

  So he harnessed his chariot and took his people with him.

• Exodus 14:7

  He took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.

• Exodus 14:9

  The Egyptians pursued them and overtook them camping by the sea, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, near Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

• Exodus 14:17

  And I, look, I am making the heart of the Egyptians obstinate, so that they will go in after them; and I will gain glory over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.

• Exodus 14:18

  And the Egyptians will know that I am YHWH, when I gain glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

• Exodus 14:23

  The Egyptians pursued and went in after them, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen, into the midst of the sea.

• Exodus 14:26

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots, and over their horsemen.”

• Exodus 14:28

  The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, all the army of Pharaoh that had gone after them into the sea; not even one of them remained.

• Exodus 15:19

  For when the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, YHWH brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.

• Deuteronomy 11:4

  and what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and to its chariots, how he made the waters of the Sea of Reeds flow over their faces when they pursued you, and YHWH made them perish to this day;

• Deuteronomy 20:1

  When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots, a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them, for YHWH your Elohim is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 24:6

  No one shall take in pledge a handmill or an upper millstone, for he would be taking in pledge a life.

• Joshua 11:4

  They came out, they and all their camps with them, a people as many as the sand that is on the shore of the sea, in multitude, and horses and chariots, very many.

• Joshua 17:16

  And the sons of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanite who live in the land of the valley, both those in Beth-shean and its towns and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”

• Joshua 17:18

  but the hill country shall be yours; for it is forest, and you will clear it, and its ends shall be yours; for you will dispossess the Canaanite, though he has iron chariots, though he is strong.”

• Joshua 24:6

  And I brought out your fathers from Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Sea of Reeds.

• Judges 1:19

  YHWH was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country; but he could not dispossess the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

• Judges 4:3

  The sons of Israel cried out to YHWH, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had oppressed the sons of Israel with force twenty years.

• Judges 4:7

  And I will draw out to you, to the brook Kishon, Sisera, the commander of the army of Jabin, with his chariots and his multitude, and I will give him into your hand.’”

• Judges 4:13

  Sisera summoned all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the brook Kishon.

• Judges 4:15

  YHWH threw into confusion Sisera and all the chariots and all the camp with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera got down from the chariot and fled on foot.

• Judges 4:16

  Barak pursued the chariots and the camp as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the camp of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one was left.

• Judges 5:28

  Through the window she looked out and cried, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot slow in coming? Why are the hoofbeats of his chariots delayed?’

• Judges 9:53

  But a certain woman threw an upper millstone on the head of Abimelech and crushed his skull.

• 1 Samuel 8:12

  and he will appoint for himself chiefs of thousands and chiefs of fifties, and some to plow his plowland and to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and the equipment of his chariots.

• 1 Samuel 13:5

  The Philistines gathered to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people like the sand that is on the shore of the sea in multitude. They came up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

• 2 Samuel 1:6

  The young man who was reporting it to him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and look, Saul was leaning on his spear; and look, the chariots and the horsemen were following him closely.

• 2 Samuel 8:4

  David captured from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, and left of them a hundred chariots.

• 2 Samuel 10:18

  Aram fled before Israel, and David killed of Aram seven hundred chariots and forty thousand horsemen; and Shobach, the commander of his army, he struck, and he died there.

• 2 Samuel 11:21

  Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go near to the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”

• 1 Kings 1:5

  Now Adonijah son of Haggith was exalting himself, saying, “I will reign.” And he made for himself chariots and horsemen and fifty men running before him.

• 1 Kings 9:19

  and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for chariots, and the cities for horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion.

• 1 Kings 9:22

  But of the sons of Israel Solomon did not make a slave, for they were the men of war, and his servants, and his officials, and his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and of his horsemen.

• 1 Kings 10:26

  And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he stationed them in the cities for chariots and with the king in Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 16:9

  His servant Zimri, commander of half the chariots, conspired against him. He was in Tirzah, drinking and drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

• 1 Kings 20:1

  Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his troops; thirty and two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.

• 1 Kings 20:21

  The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and the chariots, and struck Aram with a great blow.

• 1 Kings 20:25

  And you, count for yourself troops like the troops that fell from you, horse for horse and chariot for chariot; and let us fight against them on the plateau, and surely we will be stronger than they.” He listened to their voice and did so.

• 1 Kings 22:31

  Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty and two commanders of the chariots that he had, saying, “Do not fight with small or with great, but with the king of Israel alone.”

And 79 more times.