Hebrew

To boil

רָתַחStrong’s H7570

ratach (ra-tach)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ratach is the Hebrew word usually translated “have been made to boil”, “it makes boil” and “make boil”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.”

Meaning

To boil(Piel) to cause to boil · (Pual) to be made to boil · (Hiphil) to cause to boil

How it's translated

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

Where it's used most

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

רָתַח ratach · to boil

1) to boil 1a) (Piel) to cause to boil 1b) (Pual) to be made to boil 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to boil

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

BOIL, verb intransitive

[Latin bullio, bulla, a bubble.]

To swell, heave, or be agitated by the action of heat; to bubble; to rise in bubbles; as, the water boils.
To be agitated by any other cause than heat; as, the boiling waves which roll and foam.
To be hot or fervid; to swell by native heat, vigor or irritation; as the boiling blood of youth; his blood boils with anger.
To be in boiling water; to suffer boiling heat in water or other liquid, for cookery or other purpose.

All definitions and other forms of “boil”

BOIL, verb transitive

To dress or cook in boiling water; to seethe; to extract the juice or quality of any thing by boiling.

BOIL, noun

A tumor upon the flesh, accompanied with soreness and inflammation; a sore angry swelling.

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.