Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to bind
Usage: (Qal) to bind, attach
Ratham means “bind” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7573 רָתַם (ratham) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ratham (raw-tham') v. 1. to yoke up (to the pole of a vehicle) [a primitive root] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include bind. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ratham (raw-tham') v. 1. to yoke up (to the pole of a vehicle) [a primitive root] KJV: bind.
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to bind
Usage: (Qal) to bind, attach
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ratham, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H7573.
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7573, grouped by book.
Ratham (Strong's H7573) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "bind". ratham (raw-tham') v. 1. to yoke up (to the pole of a vehicle) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H7573 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7573 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bind. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.