רֶשֶׁת
resheth · reh'-sheth
a net (as catching animals)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3423 (יָרַשׁ);
a net (as catching animals)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: net(-work).
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to consume, to destroy › the mark, the covenant sign
The head, the highest that works to consume, to destroy of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רֶשֶׁת 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
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a net4 · 19%
- my net4 · 19%
- and upon the net1 · 5%
- that the net1 · 5%
- of network1 · 5%
- into a net1 · 5%
- in the net1 · 5%
- him into his net1 · 5%
- out of the net1 · 5%
- of the net1 · 5%
- for me their net1 · 5%
- and let his net1 · 5%
- the net1 · 5%
- their net1 · 5%
- and a net1 · 5%
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.