rachav · ride

What it means

rachav (רָכַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ride”.

An animal or a chariot; in the causative form, set someone on a mount.

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. To ride an animal or a chariot.
2. The one mounted on a horse: messenger or soldier.
3. To set someone on a mount.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To ride an animal or a chariot; in the causative form, to set someone on a mount. As a participle, the rider. BDB: to ride on an animal or in a vehicle; to cause to ride; also, a rider. Of the same root is רֶכֶב, “chariot” (H7393).

• Riding camels, donkeys or mules Genesis 24:61Numbers 22:222 Samuel 18:9
• Having someone ride: Joseph in the chariot, Solomon on the mule Genesis 41:431 Kings 1:33
• “Horse and its rider” Exodus 15:1
• The horse the king has ridden Esther 6:8
• YHWH “who rides the heavens”; the king “riding on a donkey” Deuteronomy 33:26Zechariah 9:9

How we translate it

“Ride” 17 times, “riding” 17, “rode” 11, “rider” 9, “riders” 5; in the causative form, “He had him ride” (Genesis 41:43) or “set” (“set Solomon my son on the mule”, 1 Kings 1:33). In 1 Kings 18:45, “Ahab rode {in his chariot}”.

How it is translated

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

• ride ×17
• riding ×17
• rode ×11
• rider ×9
• riders ×5
• set ×5
• Put ×3
• rides ×3
• carried ×2
• him who rides ×2
• others ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×6
• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Kings×11
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×5
• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Haggai×2
• Zechariah×4

• Genesis 24:61

  Rebekah and her girls rose and rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and went.

• Genesis 41:43

  He had him ride in the second chariot that he had, and they cried out before him, “Abrek!” So he set him over all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 49:17

  Dan will be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that its rider falls backward.

• Exodus 4:20

  So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on the donkey and returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the staff of Elohim in his hand.

• Exodus 15:1

  Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to YHWH, and they said: “I will sing to YHWH, for he is highly exalted; horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea.

• Exodus 15:21

  And Miriam answered them, “Sing to YHWH, for he is highly exalted; horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea.”

• Leviticus 15:9

  And any saddle on which the man with the discharge rides shall be unclean.

• Numbers 22:22

  But the anger of Elohim burned because he was going, and the angel of YHWH took his stand in the road as an opponent to him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two young men were with him.

• Numbers 22:30

  And the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life until this day? Have I ever been accustomed to do so to you?” And he said, “No.”

• Deuteronomy 32:13

  He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field; he made him suck honey from the crag and oil from the flint of the rock,

• Deuteronomy 33:26

  “There is none like El, Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your help, and in his majesty the clouds.

• Judges 5:10

  You who ride white donkeys, who sit on rugs, and who walk on the road, speak of it!

• Judges 10:4

  He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities; them they call Havvoth-jair to this day; they are in the land of Gilead.

• Judges 12:14

  He had forty sons and thirty sons of his sons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He judged Israel eight years.

• 1 Samuel 25:20

  As she was riding on the donkey and coming down under cover of the mountain, look, David and his men were coming down toward her, and she met them.

• 1 Samuel 25:42

  Abigail hurried and arose and rode on the donkey, with her five young women who went at her feet; she went after the messengers of David and became his wife.

• 1 Samuel 30:17

  David struck them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on the camels and fled.

• 2 Samuel 6:3

  They set the ark of Elohim on a new cart and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart.

• 2 Samuel 13:29

  The young men of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons got up, and they rode, each on his mule, and fled.

• 2 Samuel 16:2

  The king said to Ziba, “What are these to you?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the household of the king to ride, and the bread and the summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for the exhausted in the wilderness to drink.”

• 2 Samuel 18:9

  Absalom happened to be before the servants of David. Absalom was riding on the mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of the great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between the heavens and the earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

• 2 Samuel 19:26

  He said, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said, ‘Let me saddle for myself the donkey, and I will ride on it and go with the king,’ for your servant is lame.

• 2 Samuel 22:11

  He rode on a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind.

• 1 Kings 1:33

  And the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and set Solomon my son on the mule that is mine, and bring him down to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:38

  So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and set Solomon on the mule of King David, and brought him to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:44

  The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.

• 1 Kings 13:13

  He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him, and he rode on it.

• 1 Kings 18:45

  And it happened, in the meantime, that the heavens grew dark with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode in his chariot and went to Jezreel.

• 2 Kings 4:24

  She saddled the donkey and said to her young man, “Drive and go; do not hold back the riding for me unless I tell you.”

• 2 Kings 9:16

  Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there; and Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.

• 2 Kings 9:18

  The rider on horseback went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is there peace?’” Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.” The watchman reported, saying, “The messenger came to them, but he has not come back.”

• 2 Kings 9:19

  He sent a second rider on horseback, and he came to them and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Peace?’” Jehu said, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.”

• 2 Kings 9:25

  He said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, throw him into the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how I and you were riding side by side behind Ahab his father, when YHWH lifted up against him this oracle:

• 2 Kings 9:28

  His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.

• 2 Kings 10:16

  He said, “Come with me and see my zeal for YHWH.” So they had him ride in his chariot.

• 2 Kings 13:16

  He said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” And he put his hand on it, and Elisha put his hands on the hands of the king.

• 2 Kings 18:23

  Now, make a deal, please, with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put riders of your own on them.

• 2 Kings 23:30

  His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

• 1 Chronicles 13:7

  They set the ark of Elohim on a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzzah and Ahio were driving the cart.

• 2 Chronicles 35:24

  So his servants took him out of the chariot and put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

And 38 more times.