To ride
רָכַבStrong’s H7392rakhav (ra-khav)
Appears in 75 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rakhav is the Hebrew word usually translated “riding”, “riders of” and “rider its”. It appears in 75 verses of the Old Testament.
“I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.”
Meaning
- To mount and ride, ride(Qal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- riding 7
- riders of 7
- and rider its 5
- and he rode 4
- and he made ride 2
- rode 2
- and they made to ride 2
- to ride 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 10
- 2 Samuel 6
- 1 Kings 5
- Esther 5
- Psalms 5
- Jeremiah 5
24 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 9:9In contextRejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
- Zechariah 10:5In contextAnd they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
- Zechariah 12:4In contextIn that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
- Genesis 24:61And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
- Genesis 41:43And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 49:17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
All 75 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
רָכַב rakhav · to ride
1) to mount and ride, ride 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to mount, mount and sit or ride 1a2) to ride, be riding 1a3) rider (subst) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to ride, cause to (mount and) ride 1b2) to cause to draw (plough, etc) 1b3) to cause to ride upon (fig)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ride” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RIDE, verb intransitive
preterit tense rode or rid; participle passive rid, ridden. [L rheda, a chariot or vehicle.]
- To be carried on horseback, or on any beast, or in any vehicle.
- To be borne on or in a fluid.“He rode on a cherub and did fly; yea, he did fly on the wings of the wind” Psalms 18:10
- To be supported in motion.
- To practice riding.
All definitions and other forms of “ride”
- To manage a horse well.
- To be supported by something subservient; to sit.
RIDE, verb transitive
- To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse.
- To manage insolently at will; as in priestridden.
- To carry. [Local.]
RIDE, noun
- An excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
- A saddle horse. [Local.]
- A road cut in a wood or through a ground for the amusement of riding; a riding.
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.