רֹךְ
rokh
tenderness
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "rokh" (H7391) conveys a sense of tenderness, suggesting a gentle and delicate quality. This emotion is part of the broader category of feelings and attitudes, indicating that it is an emotional state. The word appears only once in the Bible, implying a unique and possibly significant moment in the text when tenderness is emphasized. The scarcity of its use likely underscores its importance as a distinct emotional tone, distinct from other emotions such as joy, anger, or sadness. The limited availability of information on "rokh" does not allow us to explore its full significance or potential contexts of use, but its presence in the one biblical instance likely reinforces the notion that tenderness has a unique place within the broader emotional landscape of the text, conveying a distinctive feeling or attitude worth highlighting.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text