Trough
רַ֫הַטStrong’s H7298rahat (ra-hat)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rahat is the Hebrew word usually translated “drinking troughs” and “tresses”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.”
Meaning
- Trough, hollow
- Lock of hairmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- in the drinking troughs 2
- the drinking troughs 1
- by the tresses 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 1
- Song of Solomon 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 30:41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
- Exodus 2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
- Song of Solomon 7:5Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
Hebrew dictionary
רַ֫הַט rahat · trough
trough, hollow
רַ֫הַט rahat · lock
1) lock of hair 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “trough” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TROUGH, noun
trauf.
- A vessel hollow longitudinally, or a large log or piece of timber excavated longitudinally on the upper side; used for various purposes.
- A tray. [This is the same word dialectically altered.]
- A canoe; the rude boat of uncivilized men.
- The channel that conveys water, as in mills.
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.