Moon
יָרֵחַStrong’s H3394yareach (ya-re-ach)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yareach is the Hebrew word usually translated “moon”, “o moon” and “like moon”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.”
Meaning
- Moon
How it's translated
- and moon 8
- moon 7
- and the moon 3
- the moon 3
- and to the moon 2
- to the moon 1
- and o moon 1
- like moon 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 8
- Isaiah 3
- Joel 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- Joshua 2
- Job 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 4:19And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
- Deuteronomy 17:3And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
- Joshua 10:12Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
- Joshua 10:13And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
- 2 Kings 23:5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
- Job 25:5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Hebrew dictionary
יָרֵחַ yareach · moon
moon
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “moon” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOON, noun
- The heavenly orb which revolves round the earth; a secondary planet or satellite of the earth, whose borrowed light is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel the darkness of night.
- A month.
All definitions and other forms of “moon”
MOON'-BEAM, noun
A ray of light from the moon
MOON'-CALF, noun
A monster; a false conception.
- A mole or mass of fleshy matter generated in the uterus.
- A dolt; a stupid fellow.
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.