רֶתֶם
retem · broom tree
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7574 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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retem (רֶתֶם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “broom tree”.
A desert shrub with long thin branches, which gives a little shade and whose root was used for firewood.
How to say it
re·tem
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
- A desert shrub.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went into the wilderness a day’s journey, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked for himself to die, and said, “Enough now, YHWH! Take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”
- 1 Kings 19:5
He lay down and slept under a broom tree; and there, an angel was touching him, and he said to him, “Get up, eat.”
- Job 30:4
They pluck salt herb by the brush, and the root of the broom is their bread.
- Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of a warrior, with coals of broom.