Rafter
רָהִיטStrong’s H7351rechit (re-chit)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Rechit is the Hebrew word usually translated “rafters our”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.”
Meaning
- Rafters, boards
How it's translated
- rafters our 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
רָהִיט rechit · rafter
rafters, boards
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rafter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
R'AFTER, noun
[Gr. to cover; a roof.]
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.