Millstone
רֵחֶהStrong’s H7347recheh (re-cheh)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Recheh is the Hebrew word usually translated “hand-mill”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.”
Meaning
- Handmillsa pair of millstones for grinding
How it's translated
- a hand-mill 3
- the hand-mill 1
- in hand-mill 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 11:8And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
- Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
- Isaiah 47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
- Jeremiah 25:10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
Hebrew dictionary
רֵחֶה recheh · millstone
1) handmills 1a) a pair of millstones for grinding
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “millstone” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MILL'STONE, noun
A stone used for grinding grain.
All definitions and other forms of “millstone”
MILL'-TOOTH, noun
plural mill-teeth. A grinder, dens molaris.
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.