1. רָחַף
hover, move gently, cherish, brood
The corpus record — Hebrew
מְרַחֶ֖פֶת
rachaph · vb
hover, move gently, cherish, brood
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 3 · 0.1/10k
Senses
2. רָחַף
grow soft, relax, be soft
3. רָחַף
to brood; by implication, to be relaxed
Attestations
- מְרַחֶ֖פֶת Genesis 1:2 (BHS)
- יְרַחֵ֑ף Deuteronomy 32:11 (BHS)
- רָֽחֲפוּ֙ Jeremiah 23:9 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.