Tenderness
רֹךְStrong’s H7391rokh
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Rokh is the Hebrew word usually translated “from gentleness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,”
Meaning
- Tenderness, delicacyof woman
How it's translated
- and from gentleness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רֹךְ rokh · tenderness
1) tenderness, delicacy 1a) of woman
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tenderness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEN'DERNESS, noun
The state of being tender or easily broken, bruised or injured; softness; brittleness; as the tenderness of a thread; the tenderness of flesh.
- The state of being easily hurt; soreness; as the tenderness of flesh when bruised or inflamed.
- Susceptibility of the softer passions; sensibility.
- Kind attention; anxiety for the good of another, or to save him from pain.
- Scrupulousness; caution; extreme care or concern not to give or to commit offense; as tenderness of conscience.
All definitions
- Cautious care to preserve or not to injure; as a tenderness of reputation.
- Softness of expression; pathos.
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.