To overflow
רָחַשׁStrong’s H7370rachash (ra-chash)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Rachash is the Hebrew word usually translated “it is aroused”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to keep moving, stir
How it's translated
- it is aroused 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
רָחַשׁ rachash · to overflow
(Qal) to keep moving, stir
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “overflow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OVERFLOW, verb transitive
- To spread over, as water; to inundate; to cover with water or other fluid.
- To fill beyond the brim.
- To deluge; to overwhelm; to cover, as with numbers.
All definitions and other forms of “overflow”
OVERFLOW, verb intransitive
- To run over; to swell and run over the brim or banks.
- To be abundant; to abound; to exuberate; as overflowing plenty.
O'VERFLOW, noun
An inundation; also, superabundance.
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.