Ewe
רָחֵלStrong’s H7353rachel (ra-chel)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rachel is the Hebrew word usually translated “ewes”, “ewes your” and “like a ewe”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.”
Meaning
- Ewe
How it's translated
- ewes 2
- ewes your 1
- and like a ewe 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 32:14Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
- Song of Solomon 6:6Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.
- Isaiah 53:7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Hebrew dictionary
רָחֵל rachel · ewe
ewe
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ewe” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EWE, noun
yu. [Latin ovis.] A female sheep; the female of the ovine race of animals.
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.