רֶנֶן
renen · reh'-nen
an ostrich (from its wail)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7442 (רָנַן);
an ostrich (from its wail)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] goodly.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › the seed, life continuing › the seed, life continuing
The head, the highest of the seed, life continuing of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רֶנֶן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
1 occurrences · 1 OT · 0 NT · 1 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- gavest thou the goodly1 · 100%
Where it is used, by book.
- Job1
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.