Boiling
רֶ֫תַחStrong’s H7571retach (re-tach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Retach is the Hebrew word usually translated “boiling its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.”
Meaning
- Boiling
How it's translated
- boiling its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
רֶ֫תַח retach · boiling
boiling
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “boiling” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOIL'ING, participle present
tense Bubbling; heaving in bubbles; being agitated as boiling liquor; swelling with heat, ardor or passion; dressing or preparing for some purpose by hot water.
All definitions and other forms of “boiling”
BOIL'ING, noun
The act or state of bubbling; agitation by heat; ebullition; the act of dressing by hot water; the act of preparing by hot water, or of evaporating by heat.
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.