רֶ֫כֶב
chariot
also: a team, chariotry, mill-stone, riders fuller range ↓
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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.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 78 times (65%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 41 times (34%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (1%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 120 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7393 appears — 104 distinct verses across 19 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.
Genesis 1 verse
Exodus 9 verses
- Exodus 14:6 רִכְבּ֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;
- Exodus 14:7 רֶ֨כֶב֙ רֶ֣כֶב n c ms n c ms cs and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
- Exodus 14:9 רֶ֣כֶב n c ms cs The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
- Exodus 14:17 בְּ/רִכְבּ֖/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his host, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
- Exodus 14:18 בְּ/רִכְבּ֖/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen."
- Exodus 14:23 רִכְבּ֖/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
- Exodus 14:26 רִכְבּ֖/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen."
- Exodus 14:28 הָ/רֶ֨כֶב֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
- Exodus 15:19 בְּ/רִכְבּ֤/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Deuteronomy 3 verses
- Deuteronomy 11:4 וּ/לְ/רִכְבּ֗/וֹ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
- Deuteronomy 20:1 וָ/רֶ֨כֶב֙ conj + n c ms When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 24:6 וָ/רָ֑כֶב conj + n c ms No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
Joshua 4 verses
- Joshua 11:4 וָ/רֶ֖כֶב conj + n c ms They went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
- Joshua 17:16 וְ/רֶ֣כֶב conj + n c ms cs The children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.
- Joshua 17:18 רֶ֤כֶב n c ms cs but the hill-country shall be yours; for though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and the goings out of it shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
- Joshua 24:6 בְּ/רֶ֥כֶב prep + n c ms I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
Judges 8 verses
- Judges 1:19 רֶ֥כֶב n c ms cs Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out [the inhabitants of] the hill-country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
- Judges 4:3 רֶֽכֶב n c ms cs The children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
- Judges 4:7 רִכְבּ֖/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.
- Judges 4:13 רִכְבּ֗/וֹ רֶ֣כֶב n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.
- Judges 4:15 הָ/רֶ֧כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
- Judges 4:16 הָ/רֶ֨כֶב֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.
- Judges 5:28 רִכְבּ/וֹ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Sisera [cried] through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?
- Judges 9:53 רֶ֖כֶב n c ms A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 8:12 רִכְבּֽ/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
- 1 Samuel 13:5 רֶ֨כֶב֙ n c ms The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
2 Samuel 4 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:6 הָ/רֶ֛כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms The young man who told him said, As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and, behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.
- 2 Samuel 8:4 הָ/רֶ֔כֶב רָֽכֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms n c ms David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
- 2 Samuel 10:18 רֶ֔כֶב n c ms The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.
- 2 Samuel 11:21 רֶ֜כֶב n c ms who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then shall you say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
1 Kings 13 verses
- 1 Kings 1:5 רֶ֚כֶב n c ms Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
- 1 Kings 9:19 הָ/רֶ֔כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- 1 Kings 9:22 רִכְבּ֖/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
- 1 Kings 10:26 רֶ֣כֶב רֶ֔כֶב הָ/רֶ֔כֶב n c ms n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 16:9 הָ/רָ֑כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah:
- 1 Kings 20:1 וָ/רָ֑כֶב conj + n c ms Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
- 1 Kings 20:21 הָ/רָ֑כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
- 1 Kings 20:25 וְ/רֶ֣כֶב כָּ/רֶ֗כֶב conj + n c ms prep det + n c ms and number you an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. He listened to their voice, and did so.
- 1 Kings 22:31 הָ/רֶ֨כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
- 1 Kings 22:32 הָ/רֶ֜כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel; and they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
- 1 Kings 22:33 הָ/רֶ֔כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
- 1 Kings 22:35 הָ/רָֽכֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms The battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
- 1 Kings 22:38 הָ/רֶ֜כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood (now the prostitutes washed themselves [there]); according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.
2 Kings 17 verses
- 2 Kings 2:11 רֶֽכֶב n c ms cs It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both apart; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
- 2 Kings 2:12 רֶ֤כֶב n c ms cs Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen of it! He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
- 2 Kings 5:9 וּ/בְ/רִכְבּ֑/וֹ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
- 2 Kings 6:14 וְ/רֶ֖כֶב conj + n c ms Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
- 2 Kings 6:15 וָ/רָ֑כֶב conj + n c ms When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
- 2 Kings 6:17 וְ/רֶ֛כֶב conj + n c ms cs Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
- 2 Kings 7:6 רֶ֨כֶב֙ n c ms For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.
- 2 Kings 7:14 רֶ֣כֶב n c ms They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
- 2 Kings 8:21 הָ/רֶ֖כֶב הָ/רֶ֔כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
- 2 Kings 9:21 רִכְבּ֑/וֹ בְּ/רִכְבּ֗/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Joram said, Make ready. They made ready his chariot. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
- 2 Kings 9:24 בְּ/רִכְבּֽ/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
- 2 Kings 10:2 הָ/רֶ֣כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor;
- 2 Kings 10:16 בְּ/רִכְבּֽ/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh. So they made him ride in his chariot.
- 2 Kings 13:7 רֶ֔כֶב n c ms For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
- 2 Kings 13:14 רֶ֥כֶב n c ms cs Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen of it!
- 2 Kings 18:24 לְ/רֶ֖כֶב prep + n c ms How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
- 2 Kings 19:23 ב/רכב רִכְבִּ֛/י prep + n c ms cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.
1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 1 Chronicles 18:4 רֶ֗כֶב הָ/רֶ֔כֶב רָֽכֶב n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms n c ms David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
- 1 Chronicles 19:6 רֶ֖כֶב n c ms When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.
- 1 Chronicles 19:7 רֶ֗כֶב n c ms So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
- 1 Chronicles 19:18 רֶ֔כֶב n c ms The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
2 Chronicles 11 verses
- 2 Chronicles 1:14 רֶ֣כֶב רֶ֔כֶב הָ/רֶ֔כֶב n c ms n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 8:6 הָ/רֶ֔כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- 2 Chronicles 8:9 רִכְבּ֖/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
- 2 Chronicles 9:25 הָ/רֶ֔כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 12:3 רֶ֔כֶב n c ms with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
- 2 Chronicles 16:8 לְ/רֶ֥כֶב prep + n c ms Weren't the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because you did rely on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.
- 2 Chronicles 18:30 הָ/רֶ֤כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 18:31 הָ/רֶ֜כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.
- 2 Chronicles 18:32 הָ/רֶ֔כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
- 2 Chronicles 21:9 הָ/רֶ֖כֶב הָ/רָֽכֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots.
- 2 Chronicles 35:24 רֶ֣כֶב n c ms cs So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Psalms 3 verses
- Psalms 20:7 בָ֭/רֶכֶב prep det + n c ms Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, But we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
- Psalms 68:17 רֶ֤כֶב n c ms cs The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
- Psalms 76:6 וְ/רֶ֣כֶב conj + n c ms At your rebuke, God of Jacob, Both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 9 verses
- Isaiah 21:7 רֶ֗כֶב רֶ֥כֶב רֶ֣כֶב n c ms n c ms cs n c ms cs and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with much heed.
- Isaiah 21:9 רֶ֣כֶב n c ms cs and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. He answered, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
- Isaiah 22:6 בְּ/רֶ֥כֶב prep + n c ms cs Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
- Isaiah 22:7 רָ֑כֶב n c ms It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
- Isaiah 31:1 רֶ֜כֶב n c ms Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Yahweh!
- Isaiah 36:9 לְ/רֶ֖כֶב prep + n c ms How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
- Isaiah 37:24 רִכְבִּ֛/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;
- Isaiah 43:17 רֶֽכֶב n c ms who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick):
- Isaiah 66:20 וּ֠/בָ/רֶכֶב conj + prep det + n c ms They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.
Jeremiah 6 verses
- Jeremiah 17:25 בָּ/רֶ֣כֶב prep det + n c ms then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever.
- Jeremiah 22:4 בָּ/רֶ֣כֶב prep det + n c ms For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
- Jeremiah 46:9 הָ/רֶ֔כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
- Jeremiah 47:3 לְ/רִכְבּ֔/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don't look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
- Jeremiah 50:37 רִכְבּ֗/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
- Jeremiah 51:21 רֶ֖כֶב n c ms and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
Ezekiel 4 verses
- Ezekiel 23:24 רֶ֤כֶב n c ms They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
- Ezekiel 26:7 וּ/בְ/רֶ֥כֶב conj + prep + n c ms For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much people.
- Ezekiel 26:10 וָ/רֶ֗כֶב conj + n c ms By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.
- Ezekiel 39:20 וָ/רֶ֔כֶב conj + n c ms You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.
Daniel 1 verse
Nahum 3 verses
- Nahum 2:3 הָ/רֶ֖כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
- Nahum 2:4 הָ/רֶ֔כֶב ptcl def.art + n c ms The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
- Nahum 2:13 רִכְבָּ֔/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."
Zechariah 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.
רכב — transliterated rekeb — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “chariot.” It also covers “a team”, “chariotry”, and “mill-stone”, alongside “chariot” — see its full sense range. It appears 104 verses across 19 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. Debuting at Genesis 50:9, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include רכב, ארכבה and מרכב. See the sense tree, 104-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7393 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 →
- 104
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 104 distinct verses.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #360
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 360 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 104 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 17 verses 16%
- 1 Kings 13 verses 13%
- 2 Chronicles 11 verses 11%
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 104 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 71 verses · 68%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 20 verses · 19%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 13 verses · 13%
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: Chariots 72×, Chariot 23×, All his chariots 3×
- American Standard Version: Chariots 68×, Chariot 16×, All his chariots 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Chariots 77×, Chariot 23×, Riders 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Chariots 43×, Chariot 27×, Chariotry 20×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7393 across 119 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7393 across 119 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 20 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 H7393 across 116 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7393 across 118 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. 109 coll. chariotry, chariots [sometimes of specific no. 2 K 13:7; 2 S 8:4; Ex 14:7 etc.; often + פָּרָשִׁים, סוּס(ים)]. especially war-chariots: in Egypt Ex 14:7 (J), Jos 24:6 (E) +; early Canaan Jos 11:4; Ju 4:7, 13; 5:28 (not sg.; ‖ מַרְכְּבוֹתָיו) +, called ר׳ בַּרְזֶל (i.e. iron-bound, or studded, cf. GFM Ju 1, 19 and reff.), †Jos 17:16, 18; Ju 1:19; 4:3, 13†; Philist., according to 1 S 13:5; 2 S 1:6; Aramaic 8:4; 10:18 +; Judah and Israel (from David’s time, cf. 8:4) 1 K 9:19, 22; 10:26 +, read also בְּרִכְבְּךָ Ho 10:13 (for בְּדַרְכְּךָ) 𝔊A We Now GASm; Assyria 2 K 19:23 = Is 37:24; Na 2:4, 5, 14 (to be burnt; made mainly of wood); Babyl. Je 47:3 (on title v 1, see Gf Gie), 50:37; 51:21 Ez 23:24 +, etc.; for dignity and display 1 K 1:5; 2 K 5:9; Je 17:25; 22:4; Is 66:20, cf. Gn 50:9 (J), (cf. also 1 K 9:19, 22; 10:26, etc.); fig. of Elijah, ר׳ יִשְׂרָאֵל וּפָרָשָׁיו 2 K 2:12, of Elisha 13:14; רֶכֶב אֵשׁ 2 K 2:11 chariotry of fire (at Elijah’s translation); ר׳ אֵל ψ 68:18 chariots of Ēl, i.e. his heavenly host, cf. vision 2 K 6:17, and also 7:6; ר׳ meton. for chariot-horses 2 S 8:4 = 1 Ch 18:4. e.g. 2 Kings 13:7
- 2. of single chariot 1 K 22:35, 38; 2 K 9:21(×2), 24; 10:16; 2 Ch 35:24, prob. also Ex 14:6; pl. רִכְבֵי פַרְעֹה Ct 1:9. e.g. 1 Kings 22:35
- 3. upper millstone (as riding on the lower) Dt 24:6; Ju 9:53; 2 S 11:21. e.g. Deuteronomy 24:6
- 4. appar. = riders (coll.), troop (of riders): שְׁנֵי רֶכֶב סוּסִים 2 K 7:14 perhaps רֹכְבֵי, cf. 𝔊 and 2 K 9:16 Bur. two riders of horses, horsemen or two chariots drawn by horses (?); in foll. text dub.: ר׳ צֶמֶד פָּרָשִׁים ר׳ חֲמוֹר ר׳ גָּמָל Is 21:7 riders, viz. a pair of horsemen, ass-riders, camel-riders; cf. ר׳ אִישׁ צֶמֶד פָּרָשִׁים v 9 i.e. men riding, a pair of horsemen; בְּר׳ אָדָם פָּרָשִׁים 22:6 with riders (consisting of) men, horsemen, but use of אָדָם very improb.; attractive is with chariotry of (drawn by) steeds (א׳ as gloss) Du CheHpt Di-Kit but פ׳ hardly steeds here (cf. פ׳ horsemen, v 7); read perhaps simply בְּר׳ וּפ׳. e.g. 2 Kings 7:14
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. 2 K 13, 7 [even Na 2:5, where read מַרְאֵיהֶם (for -הֶן) We Now AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 90] chariotry, chariot, mill-stone; appar. also riders (cf. LagBN151);—abs. ר׳ Gn 50:9 +, רָ֑כֶב 2 S 8:4 +; cstr. רֶכֶב Ex 14:9 +; sf. רִכְבִּי Ju 4:7 +, רִכְבּוֹ 2 K 5:9 +, רִכְבָּהּ Na 2:14; pl. cstr. רִכְבֵי Ct 1:9;—Ho 10:13 v. infr.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רכב (râkab) (H7392) — to ride.
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.
רָכב
- (b. h.) [to be joined,] to ride. B. Mets. I, 2 היו רוֹכְבִין … אחד רוֹכֵב וכ׳ if two persons (each claiming to be the finder of an object) were riding …, or one was riding and one leading. Ḥag. I, 1; Y. ib. I, 76ᵃ top כל שאינו יכול לִרְכּוֹב וכ׳ a child too young to be carried on his father’s shoulder. Ber. 56ᵇ רְכָבוֹ if he dreamt that he rode on him. Gen. R. s. 75 רוֹכְבֵי סוסים riders on horses; a. fr.—Part. pass. רָכוּב; f. רְכוּבָה &c. riding. Ex. R. s. 26 תינוק שהיה ר׳ על וכ׳ a child that was riding on his father’s shoulder. Y. B. Mets. I, beg. 7ᵈ אשה … ר׳ וכ׳ if a woman rides on a beast led by two men; a. fr.—[Pesik. Vayhi, p. 4ᵃ רכובים, read דב׳, v. דָּבַב II.]
- 1. to cause to ride, put on. Snh. 91ᵇ, a. e. ה׳ חיגר על וכ׳ he made the lame ride on the blind man. Ib. בא והַרְכִּיבֵנִי come and carry me on thy back; a. fr.—Part. pass. מוּרְכָּב. Ib. 52ᵇ I remember when I was a child ומ׳ על כתיפו וכ׳ and rode on my father’s shoulder &c.; (Tosef. ib. IX, 11 רכוב); a. e.
- 2. to join, combine. Tosef. Sabb. XII (XIII), 14 המַרְכִּיב קנה וכ׳ if one inserts the branch of a candlestick; (Sabb. 47ᵃ המחזיר). Y. ib. XII, beg. 13ᶜ המרכיב מיטה וכ׳ he who sets up a folding couch; a. e.—Esp. to inoculate, engraft. Shebi. II, 6 אין … ואין מַרְכִּיבִין וכ׳ we must not plant, nor sink a vine, nor engraft before the Sabbatical year &c. Pes. IV, 8; a. fr.—Part. pass. as ab. Y. B. Bath. IV, end, 14ᵈ החרוב המ׳ a newly inoculated carob tree; a. e.
רְכַב
- Targ. O. Gen. XXIV, 61. Targ. Lev. XV, 9.—Part. רָכֵיב, רָכֵב; part. pass. רְכִיב, f. רְכִיבָא; pl. רְכִיבִין, רָכְבִּין; רְכִיבָן, רָכְבָּן. Targ. Y. Gen. l. c. Targ. Num. XXII, 22. Targ. I Sam. XXV, 20. Targ. Jud. X, 4; a. fr.—Koh. R. to I, 8 ועלון יתיה ר׳ חמרא וכ׳ and they brought him riding on an ass on the Sabbath. Gen. R. s. 65. Ber. 56ᵇ דר׳ הוא לתורא when he dreamt that he was riding on an ox; דר׳ תורא לדידיה that the ox was riding on him; a. fr.
- 1. to cause to ride. Targ. Gen. XLI, 43. Targ. Esth. VI, 9; a. fr.—Gen. R. l. c. חמי סוסא דאַרְכְּבִי … דאַרְכְּבָךְ מרך see the horse on which my master makes me ride, and see the horse (the gallows) on which thy master (the Lord) makes thee ride. Y. Kidd. I, 60ᶜ bot., a. e. אַרְכְּבֵיה וכ׳, v. בַּרְקָא II; a. fr.
- 2. to let gender; to inoculate. Targ. O. Lev. XIX, 19.—Y. Yeb. XV, 15ᵃ top אילין … דלא צריכין מַרְכְּבָא the Babylonian palms which require no inoculation.
רַכָּב
- preced.) rider. Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 2 (ref. to Ex. XV, 1) הסוס קשור ברַכָּבוֹ ורכבו בסוס וכ׳ the horse was tied to his rider, and the rider to his horse; Yalk. Ex. 243. e.g. Exodus 15:1
רֶכֶב
- preced.)
- 1. wagon, chariot; (collect. noun) chariots. Ex. R. s. 22 על רִכְבּוֹ ועל פרשיו over his (Pharaoh’s) chariots and over his horsemen; a. e.
- 2. upper millstone. B. Mets. IX, 13, v. רֵחַיִים. B. Bath. II, 1 מרחיקין … מן הר׳ you must keep the mill removed (from the neighbor’s wall) three handbreadths counting from the lower millstone, which makes four from the upper millstone; a. e.
- 3. branch for inoculation, set. Tosef. Kil. I, 10 אין מרכיבין זתים בר׳ תמרה you must not inoculate olive trees with a shoot of a palm; Y. ib. I, 27ᵇ
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 56 distinct written forms H7393 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7393, 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
- ארכבה ʼarkubâh H755 knee
- מרכב merkâb H4817 chariot
- רכב rakkâb H7395 horseman
- רכוב rᵉkûwb H7398 chariot
Derived from this word
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 → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 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 100 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 104 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 50:9
- Exodus 14:6
- Deuteronomy 11:4
- Joshua 11:4
- Judges 1:19
- 1 Samuel 8:12
- 2 Samuel 1:6
- 1 Kings 1:5
- 2 Kings 2:11
- 1 Chronicles 18:4
- 2 Chronicles 1:14
- Psalms 20:7
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
