רֹכֶס
conspiracy
also: snares, plots, band, league fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H7407 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Psalms 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.
רכס (rôkeç) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “conspiracy.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Psalms dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Psalms 31:20. Ranging over 2 senses, its meaning includes “snares”, “plots”, and “band”. 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 H7407 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Pride 1×
- American Standard Version: Plottings 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Schemes 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Plots of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7407 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7407 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7407 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7407 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- snares, plots, band, league, conspiracy
- meaning dubious
Word origin
[ רֹכֶס ] n.[m.] dub., Thes Hup-Now snare, or band (Dr banding together ), or (most) league, conspiracy (RV plottings );pl. cstr. ψ 31:21
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רכס (râkaç) (H7405) — to bind.
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.
רָכַס
- to stamp; (denom. of רֶכֶס) to make a ceiling of cement (v. מַעֲזִיבָה). Y’lamd. beg., quot. in Ar. אימתי ר׳ הקב"ה וכ׳ when did God form his upper stories with water as cement, v. רֶכֶס.—[b. h. רכס to fasten.]
- to stamp; esp. (of beasts) to pass over wetted grain; to husk (differ. fr. דּוּשׁ). B. Mets. 89ᵇ, sq. פרות המְרַכְּסוֹת בתבואה והדשות וכ׳ when cows stamp (secular) grain, or thresh corn of T’rumah &c.
- to cause to stamp, let (beasts) stamp. Tosef. ib. VIII, 10 המַרְכִּיס ed. Zuck. (Var. המְרַכֵּס Pi.); Y. Ter. IX, beg. 46ᶜ המרכין (corr. acc.).
רֶכֶס
- (רָכַס), pl. רְכָסִים walls of beaten earth. Ex. R. s. 15 בנה עליות לא … אלא ר׳ של מים the Lord did not build the upper stories with stones or with hewn blocks, but he made walls of stamped water; Tanḥ. Ḥayé 3 רְכָסִין של מים (not רכסיו).—[רכסים, Is. XL, 4, mounds, embankments, cmp. כֶּבֶשׁ.] e.g. Isaiah 40:4
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7407, 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.
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