רַעֲנָן
luxuriant
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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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 17 times (85%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (5%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Palel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 1 time (5%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 20 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7488 appears — 20 distinct verses across 11 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.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 2 verses
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 4 verses
- Psalms 37:35 רַעֲנָֽן adj Adjective ms I have seen the wicked in great power, Spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
- Psalms 52:8 רַ֭עֲנָן adj Adjective ms But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
- Psalms 92:10 רַעֲנָֽן adj Adjective ms But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.
- Psalms 92:14 וְ/רַֽעֲנַנִּ֣ים conj + Adjective Adjective mp They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 6 verses
- Jeremiah 2:20 רַעֲנָ֔ן adj Adjective ms For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.
- Jeremiah 3:6 רַעֲנָ֖ן adj Adjective ms Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
- Jeremiah 3:13 רַעֲנָ֔ן adj Adjective ms Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 11:16 רַֽעֲנָן֙ adj Adjective ms Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and the branches of it are broken.
- Jeremiah 17:2 רַֽעֲנָ֑ן adj Adjective ms while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.
- Jeremiah 17:8 רַֽעֲנָ֑ן adj Adjective ms For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Ezekiel 1 verse
Hosea 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.
“luxuriant” is the headline sense of the Hebrew word רענן (raʻănân). Its earliest occurrence is Deuteronomy 12:2. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 20 verses — uncommon. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Jeremiah. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 20-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7488 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 →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,513
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,513 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 20 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 20 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 12 verses · 60%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 35%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 5%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Under every green 9×, Green 2×, I am like a green 2×
- American Standard Version†: Under every green 9×, Green 3×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Green 12×, Flourishing 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Green 10×, Leafy 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7488 across 20† 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7488 across 20† 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7488 across 20† 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7488 across 20† 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.
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 0 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.
רענן I only Paʿlel. be or grow luxuriant, fresh, green
רענן II luxuriant, fresh
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
I. vb. only Paʿlel. be or grow luxuriant, fresh, green;—Pf. 3 fs. רַעֲנָ֑נָה (De Hiob) Jb 15:32 (of branch, in fig.).
I. adj. luxuriant, fresh;—m. ר׳ Dt 12:2 +; f. רַעֲנָנָה Ct 1:16; mpl. רַעֲנַנִּים ψ 92:15;—luxuriant, of trees: בְּרוֹשׁ Ho 14:9, זַיִת ψ 52:10 (both sim.), Je 11:16 (fig.); sim. also, כְּאֶזְרָה ר׳ ψ 37:35 (but read כְּאֶרֶז הַלְּבָנוֹן 𝔊 and most); especially in phrase תַּחַת כָּל־עֵץ ר׳ place of idolatrous rites, Dt 12:2; 1 K 14:23; 2 K 16:4 = 2 Ch 28:4; 2 K 17:10; Je 2:20; 3:6, 13; Is 57:5; Ez 6:13; עַל־עֵץ ר׳ Je 17:2 (si vera l.); leaf v 8 (fig.); leafy couch Ct 1:16; fresh, oil ψ 92:11; fresh, flourishing, pers. (fig., as trees) v 15 (+ דְּשֵׁנִים).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be green
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.
רַעֲנָן
- moist, green, fresh. Midr. Till. to Ps. XCII בצרתם הם כזית ר׳ even when they are in distress, they are like a green olive tree (hopeful); Pirké d’R. El. ch. XIX; Yalk. Ps. 845. Midr. Till. to Ps. XVIII, 30 ברוש אחד ר׳ a green cypress tree; a. e.—Pl. רַעֲנַנִּים. Yalk. Jer. 296 אף העלים … היו ר׳ וכ׳ even the leaves which dropped from him (Abraham) were green, that is Ishmael.
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 12 distinct written forms H7488 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| רַעֲנָֽן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 14:23 | 6 |
| רַֽעֲנָ֑ן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 17:2 | 2 |
| רַֽעֲנָן֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 6:13 | 2 |
| רַעֲנָ֔ן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 2:20 | 2 |
| וְ/רַֽעֲנַנִּ֣ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 92:14 | 1 |
| רַ֭עֲנָן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 52:8 | 1 |
| רַֽעֲנָ֔ן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Hosea 14:8 | 1 |
| רַעֲנָ֑ן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 57:5 | 1 |
| רַעֲנָ֖ן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 3:6 | 1 |
| רַעֲנָֽנָה | Verb, Palel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Job 15:32 | 1 |
| רַעֲנָן | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 12:2 | 1 |
| רַעֲנָנָֽה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Song of Solomon 1:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7488, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 20 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
- Deuteronomy 12:2
- 2 Kings 16:4
- 2 Chronicles 28:4
- Job 15:32
- Song of Solomon 1:16
- Isaiah 57:5
- Jeremiah 2:20
- Ezekiel 6:13
- Hosea 14:8
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.
