רְנָנָה
ringing cry
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (50%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (25%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7445 appears — 4 distinct verses across 2 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.
Job 2 verses
Psalms 2 verses
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.
At its core, רננה (rᵉnânâh) means “ringing cry.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to Job (50%), then Psalms. It first appears in Job 3:7. It clusters with רנן, רן and רנה under a shared root. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7445 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
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 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 100%
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: Let no joyful voice 1×, Singing 1×, Thee with joyful 1×
- American Standard Version: Let no joyful voice 1×, Singing 1×, Thee with joyful 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Joyful 1×, Joyful songs 1×, Joyful voice 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Joyful shout 1×, Joyful shouts 1×, Rejoicing 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7445 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7445 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7445 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7445 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- ringing cry, shout (for joy)
Word origin
n.f. id.;—ר׳ abs., of joy Jb 3:7 ψ 100:3 (‖ שִׂמְחָה); pl. שִׂפְתֵי רְנָנוֹת 63:6; exultation, sg. cstr. רִמְנַת רְשָׁעִים Jb 20:5 (‖ שִׂמְחָה).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רנן (rânan) (H7442) — to shout.
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.
רְנָנָה
- (b. h.) same,
- 1. evil talk. Yeb. 26ᵃ top (in Chald. dict.) בר׳ לא מפקינן on mere talk we do not require a husband to divorce his wife.
- 2. meditation; prayer; song.—Pl. רְנָנוֹת. Ber. 17ᵃ לשונך ירחיש ר׳ may thy tongue be abundant in reflections. Ib. 29ᵃ כנגד כ"ד ר׳ וכ׳ corresponding to the twenty-four expressions for prayer which Solomon used (I Kings VIII, 23-53); Sabb. 30ᵃ (v. Rashi); Num. R. s. 143 (expl. in a gloss by ref. to II Chr. VI, 18-41); Midr. Till. to Ps. XXIV. e.g. 1 Kings 8:23
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 4 distinct written forms H7445 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּ/רְנָנָֽה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 100:2 | 1 |
| רְ֝נָנ֗וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 63:5 | 1 |
| רְנָנָ֣ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 3:7 | 1 |
| רִנְנַ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Job 20:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7445, 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 → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 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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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.
