רָתַק
ratak · tie, snap
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7576 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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ratak (רָתַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tie, snap”.
To tie; (of a cord) to be snapped or broken.
How to say it
ra·tak
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
- To fasten with chains.
- The cord holding something giving way.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- snapped ×1
- were bound ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ecclesiastes 12:6
before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is crushed, and the jar is shattered at the spring, and the wheel is broken at the cistern;
- Nahum 3:10
She too went into exile, into captivity; her infants too were dashed to pieces at the head of every street; and for her honored men they cast lots, and all her great men were bound in fetters.