Roughness
רֶ֫כֶסStrong’s H7406rekhes (re-khes)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Rekhes is the Hebrew word usually translated “rough places”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:”
Meaning
- Roughness or bound up, impeded, the impassable or mountain chain, rough placemeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- and the rough places 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
רֶ֫כֶס rekhes · roughness
1) roughness or bound up, impeded, the impassable or mountain chain, rough place 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “roughness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROUGHNESS, noun
ruf'ness.
- Unevenness of surface, occasioned by small prominences; asperity of surface; as the roughness of a board, of a floor, or of a rock.
- Austereness to the taste; as the roughness of sloes.
- Taste of astringency.
- Harshness to the ear; as the roughness of sounds.
All definitions
- Ruggedness of temper; harshness; austerity.
- Coarseness of manners or behavior; rudeness.
- Want of delicacy or refinement; as military roughness
- Severity; harshness or violence of discipline.
- Violence of operation in medicines.
- Unpolished or unfinished state; as the roughness of a gem or a draught.
- Inelegance of dress or appearance.
- Tempestuousness; boisterousness; as of winds or weather.
- Violent agitation by wind; as the roughness of the sea in a storm.
- Coarseness of features.
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.