Strong's Definition
a channel or watering-box; by resemblance a ringlet of hair (as forming parallel lines)
Derivation: from an unused root apparently meaning to hollow out;
KJV Usage: gallery, gutter, trough.
TWOT Reference: 2127a,2128a
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
רַ֫הַט (ra.hat) — trough. trough, hollow
רַ֫הַט (ra.hat) — lock. 1) lock of hair 1a) meaning uncertain
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · רָהִיט
Containers | ≈ שֹׁקֶת
watering trough = receptacle, usually located near a well, where those who have drawn water can pour the water so that their animals can drink
lock, tress meaning unsure; possibly: = long locks of hair; ≈ associated with feminine beauty
1 SNG 7:6 Ges17 Ges18 BDB DCH "ringlet, curl, lock, tress" | HALOT DCH "beam of (a weaver's) loom" | HALOT DCH "leather strip, ribbon"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[רַ֫הַט] n.[m.] trough (where water is collected?);—for watering cattle base
[רַ֫הַט] n.[m.] dub., lock of hair (?fr. flowing down);—pl. Ct 7:6. ref
