יָרֵחַ
yârêach
Meaning “moon”
BDB moon
26 verses
12 books · uncommon Hebrew Bible
First appears: Genesis 37:9
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יָרֵחַ 8 books
- Genesis 37:9 וְ/הַ/יָּרֵ֗חַ He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
- Deuteronomy 4:19 הַ/יָּרֵ֜חַ and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
- 2 Kings 23:5 וְ/לַ/יָּרֵ֨חַ֙ He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the sky.
- Ecclesiastes 12:2 וְ/הַ/יָּרֵ֖חַ Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, And the clouds return after the rain;
- Isaiah 13:10 וְ/יָרֵ֖חַ For the stars of the sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
- Jeremiah 8:2 וְ/לַ/יָּרֵ֜חַ and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
- Ezekiel 32:7 וְ/יָרֵ֖חַ When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
- Habakkuk 3:11 יָרֵ֖חַ The sun and moon stood still in the sky, At the light of your arrows as they went, At the shining of your glittering spear.
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