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To moisten

רָסַסStrong’s H7450

rasas (ra-sas)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Rasas is the Hebrew word usually translated “moisten”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.”
Ezekiel 46:14 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to moisten
How it's translated
  • to moisten 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 1

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    רָסַס rasas · to moisten

    (Qal) to moisten

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “moisten” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    MOISTEN, verb transitive

    mois'n. To make damp; to wet in a small degree.

    1. “His bones are moistened with marrow” Job 21:24

    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.