Strong's Definition
to brood; by implication, to be relaxed
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: flutter, move, shake.
TWOT Reference: 2148,2149
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
רָחַף (ra.chaph) — be weak. (Qal) to grow soft, relax, weak
רָחַף (ra.chaph) — to hover. (Piel) to hover
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Unsteady | verb qal
to tremble = process by which (part of) the body of humans shakes or trembles violently and involuntarily, ◄ caused by grief
1 GEN 1:2 RSV NIV GNT CEV ESV "Spirit" REB "spirit" | NJPS NJB NRSV "wind"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[רָחַף] vb. grow soft, relax (cf. Ar. Arabic be soft);— Qal Pf. 3 pl. רָֽחֲפוּ Je 23:9 (bones of one appalled).
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רָחַף vb. Pi. hover (NH id., cf. Grünbaum ZMG xxxix (1885), 607; Syr. Pa. Syriac move gently, also cherish, and brood, cf. Thes S. V.; connexion with I. ר׳ dub.);— Pi. Impf. 3 ms. יְרַחֵף עַל Dt 32:11 (poem) of vulture hovering over young; Pt. רוּחַ א׳ מְרַהֶפֶת עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּ֑יִם Gn 1:2(P); hovering over face of waters, or perh. (v. Syr.) brooding (and fertilizing), so Jer Quaest. In Gen. ed. Lag. 4 (reading ‘marahaefeth’), cf. Di Gunk.
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