רְאֵם
aurochs
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 6 times (67%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7214 appears — 9 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 23:22 רְאֵ֖ם n c ms God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
- Numbers 24:8 רְאֵ֖ם n c ms God brings him forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, Shall break their bones in pieces, Smite [them] through with his arrows.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Job 2 verses
Psalms 3 verses
- Psalms 22:21 רֵמִ֣ים n c mp Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
- Psalms 29:6 רְאֵמִֽים n c mp He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
- Psalms 92:10 כִּ/רְאֵ֣ים prep + n c ms But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.
Isaiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ראם (rᵉʼêm) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “aurochs.” It first appears in Numbers 23:22. With 9 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Psalms, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. It clusters with ראם, ראמה and ראומה under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7214 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 56%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 33%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Unicorn 4×, Unicorns 3×
- American Standard Version: Wild-ox 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Like a wild ox 2×, Wild ox 2×, Wild oxen 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Wild ox 5×, Wild oxen 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7214 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7214 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7214 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7214 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- probably the great aurochs or wild bulls which are now extinct. The exact meaning is not known.
Word origin
n.m. Jb 39:10 wild ox (Assyrian rêmu DlHWB 603 (ראם), HoughtonTSBA v (1877), 336 ff., and illustr. bef. p. 33 SchrKGF 135 ff., 530 HomNS 257 ff., 410, 436 f. Dr Dt 33:17; on strength and ferocity, PlinNH viii. 21; Aramaic רְאֵמָא, רֵימָא, רֵימָנָא, ܪܰܝܡܳܐ (LagBN 58); Arabic رِىْٔمٌ is white antelope, antilope leucoryx; 𝔊 (erron.) μονόκερως (Is 34:7 ἁδροί), 𝔙 unicornis, and (oftener) rhinoceros);—abs. ר׳ Nu 23:22 +, רְאֵים ψ 92:11, רֵים Jb 39:9, 10; pl. רְאֵמִים Is 34:7 ψ 29:6, רֵמִים 22:22 (v. Baer);—wild ox, as fierce and strong Jb 39:9, 10; sim. of strength of Isr., כְּתוֹעֲפוֹה ר׳ לוֹ Nu 23:22 = 24:8 (JE), רַתָּרֶם כִּרְאֵם קַרְנִי ψ 92:11; so fig. of Joseph, קֵּרְנֵי ר׳ קַרְנָיו Dt 33:17; fig. of princes of Edom Is 34:7 (+ פָּרִים עִם אַבִּירִים); of powerful foes, מִקַּרְנֵי רֵמִים ψ 22:22; in sim. of skipping, leaping, בֶּן־רְאֵמִים ψ 29:6 (‖ עֵגֶל).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ראם (râʼam) (H7213) — to rise.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
רְאֵם
- r’em, wild-ox (v. Schr. KAT2, p. 584). Gen. R. s. 31 ר׳ לא … אבל וכ׳ the r’em did not enter (the ark) with him (Noah), but his whelps did; Yalk. Job 926, v. גּוּר III. Midr. Till. to Ps. XCII, 11 מה ר׳ הזה וכ׳ as the r’em has high horns and gores in all directions &c. Midr. Till. to Ps. XXII מצא את הר׳ ישן וכ׳ he (David) found a r. asleep in the desert and thought it was a mountain; ib. אני … כקרני הר׳ הזה I will build thee a Temple of one hundred cubits, as the horn of this r.; ib. כיון שראה הר׳ וכ׳ when the r. saw the lion, he was afraid and crouched &c.; Yalk. ib. 688; a. e.—Pl. רְאֵמִים. Ib.
רָאִם
- = רוּם, to be high. Targ. Ez. XXXI, 10 רָאִימְתָּא ed. Lag. (oth. ed. רָמְתָּא). Ib. ראים. Targ. Is. XLIX, 11 יראמון ed. Lag. (oth. ed. ירומון). Ib. LII, 13 יראם ed. Lag. (oth. ed. ירום); a. e.—Part. רָאִים. Targ. Hos. XIII, 6; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H7214 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| רְאֵ֖ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 23:22 | 2 |
| כִּ/רְאֵ֣ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 92:10 | 1 |
| רְאֵם֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 33:17 | 1 |
| רְאֵמִֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 29:6 | 1 |
| רְאֵמִים֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 34:7 | 1 |
| רֵ֭ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 39:10 | 1 |
| רֵמִ֣ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 22:21 | 1 |
| רֵּ֣ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 39:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7214, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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