Ration
אֲרֻחָהStrong’s H0737aruchah (a-ru-chah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aruchah is the Hebrew word usually translated “allowance his”, “allowance of” and “portion of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.”
Meaning
- Meal, allowance, rationfood · diet
How it's translated
- and allowance his 2
- an allowance of 2
- a portion of 1
- a food allowance 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 15:17Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
- Jeremiah 40:5Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
- Jeremiah 52:34And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲרֻחָה aruchah · ration
1) meal, allowance, ration 1a) food 1b) diet
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ration” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RA'TION, noun
[Latin ratio, proportion.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.