Broom
רֹ֫תֶםStrong’s H7574retem (re-tem)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Retem is the Hebrew word usually translated “broom plant” and “broom plants”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
Meaning
- Broom-plant, retema kind of broom plant
How it's translated
- a broom plant 2
- broom plants 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
רֹ֫תֶם retem · broom
1) broom-plant, retem 1a) a kind of broom plant
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “broom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BROOM,noun
- A plant of several species, called dyer's weed, being used by dyers to give a yellow color, dyer's broom green wood, or wood waxen, dwarf broom all belonging to the genus Genista. broom rape is Orobanche, and with large purple flowers, Lathroea.
- A besom, or brush with a long handle for sweeping floors; so called from being originally made of the broom-plant.
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.