Be weak
רָחַףStrong’s H7363rachaph (ra-chaph)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rachaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “hovering”, “it hovers” and “have become weak”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to grow soft, relax, weak
- (Piel) to hover
How it's translated
- hovering 1
- it hovers 1
- they have become weak 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 32:11As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
- Jeremiah 23:9Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
Hebrew dictionary
רָחַף rachaph · be weak
(Qal) to grow soft, relax, weak
רָחַף rachaph · to hover
(Piel) to hover
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hover” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOV'ER, verb intransitive
- To flap the wings, as a fowl; to hang over or about, fluttering or flapping the wings, with short irregular flights.
- To hang over or around, with irregular motions.
- To stand in suspense or expectation.
- To wander about from place to place in the neighborhood; to move back and forth; as an army hovering on our borders; a ship hovering on our coast.
All definitions and other forms of “hover”
HOV'ER, noun
A protection or shelter by hanging over.
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.