רָצוֹן
râtsôwn · raw-tsone'
delight (especially as shown)
Lexicon
Derivation: or רָצֹן; from H7521 (רָצָה);
delight (especially as shown)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (be) acceptable(-ance, -ed), delight, desire, favour, (good) pleasure, (own, self, voluntary) will, as...(what) would.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- 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 › to pursue the straight path › to fasten and establish › the seed, life continuing
The head, the highest that works to pursue the straight path that works to fasten and establish of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָצוֹן 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
56 occurrences · 56 OT · 0 NT · 40 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- favour5 · 13%
- according to his will3 · 8%
- it at your own will2 · 5%
- to be accepted2 · 5%
- with favour2 · 5%
- his pleasure2 · 5%
- thy will2 · 5%
- in an acceptable2 · 5%
- the desire2 · 5%
- is his delight2 · 5%
- are his delight2 · 5%
- and in their selfwill1 · 3%
- that they may be accepted1 · 3%
- it of his own voluntary will1 · 3%
- ye shall offer at your own will1 · 3%
- for it shall not be acceptable1 · 3%
- thereof, and for the good will1 · 3%
- him with their whole desire1 · 3%
- with them as they would1 · 3%
- at their pleasure1 · 3%
- pleasure1 · 3%
- what they would1 · 3%
- be acceptable1 · 3%
- in his favour1 · 3%
- by thy favour1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
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.