רָשַׁם
to inscribe
‘to inscribe’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7559 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.
Daniel 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.
רשם (râsham) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to inscribe.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Daniel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in Daniel 10:21. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. 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 H7559 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
- Daniel 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: Thee that which is noted 1×
- American Standard Version: Thee that which is inscribed 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Is inscribed 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is inscribed 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7559 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7559 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7559 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7559 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.
- to inscribe, note
- (Qal) that which is inscribed (participle)
Word origin
[ רָשַׁם ] vb. inscribe, note;— Qal Dn 10:21
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
רָשַׁם
- (late b. h.)to mark, draw. Y. Gitt. II, 44ᵇ רוֹשֵׁם לפניהן בדיו וכ׳ one may draw (the signatures of illiterate witnesses) for them with ink, and they write them over with red paint (contrad. to קרע). Ib.; Y. Sabb. XII, 13ᵈ הרושם … כתבנית וכ׳ if one draws on a skin figures like writing. Sabb. XII, 4 ובכל דבר שהוא רוֹשֵׁם and with any material which marks; Gitt. II, 3 (19ᵃ), v. קַיָּימָא. Ḥull. X, 3 צריך שיִרְשׁוֹם he must mark the animal. Tanḥ. Tsav 5 האדם … רושם עליו מיתה וכ׳ when a man sins, the Lord makes the mark of death upon him; if he repents, the writ is cancelled. Sabb. 55ᵃ (ref. to Ez. IX, 4) לך ורְשׁוֹם על וכ׳ go and mark the foreheads of the righteous with a sign of ink …, and the foreheads of the wicked with blood; a. fr.—Part. pass. רָשׁוּם; f. רְשׁוּמָה; pl. רְשׁוּמִים, רְשׁוּמִין; רְשׁוּמוֹת. Y. Succ. IV, 54ᶜ top עד שלא … היתה ר׳ ברקיע וכ׳ so long as the Israelites were not redeemed from Egypt, it (the sapphire brick) was placed as a mark in heaven &c.; Lev. R. s. 23; Cant. R. to IV, 8. Gen. R. s. 81 (ref. to Dan. X, 21) אם ר׳ למה אמת … למה ר׳ if marked (for future action), why real writing (decree), and if real writing why marked? (Answ.) ר׳ עד שלא נגזרה וכ׳ marked, before the divine decree was signed; Cant. R. to I, 9; a. e.—Esp. דורשי רשומות those who interpret the Law metaphorically. B. Kam. 82ᵃ; Snh. 104ᵇ; Ber. 24ᵃ Ms. M. (ed. חמורות, v. Rashi a. l.). e.g. Ezekiel 9:4
- same.—Part. pass. מְרוּשָּׁם. Num. R. s. 95 וילדה בן מ׳ למה וכ׳ and she gave birth to a young that was marked; why? Because its mother was burnt (cauterized).
- to be marked, engraven. Midr. Till. to Ps. LXXVIII, 41 המכות היו נִרְשָׁמוֹת בגופן the plagues were engraven on their bodies (by ref. to Ps. l. c. 43).
רְשַׁם I
- , to mark; to record. Targ. Y. Gen. IV, 15. Targ. Ez. IX, 4. Targ. Is. X, 1 (h. text חקק).
- 1. same.Targ. Jud. V, 14 (h. text מחקק׳).
- 2. to make incisions. Targ. Y. Lev. XXI, 5 (h. text קרח).
- to be wrinkled. Targ. Ez. XXVII, 35 (h. text רעמו; prob. to be read: אִתְרְעִימוּ, v. רְעַם I.).
רְשַׁם II
- (preced.) incision, wound. Targ. Y. Ex. XXI, 25 Ar. (Ms. Ar. רושם; ed. הלכשיש; h. text חַבּוּרָה). Targ. Y. Lev. XIX, 28, v. רוּשְׁמָא.
רשֶׁם
- , v. רוֹשֶׁם
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
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Septuagint verse parallels
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