English Bible words starting with R
546 meanings beginning with R, in alphabetical order. This is page 2 of 6. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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really2 words
realm1 word
reap2 words
- qatsarקָצַרto reap, to harvest: to cut down standing grain at harvest time.
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- to be short, to be shortened: cut down in length, in time, or in patience and power.
- therizōθερίζωto reap: to cut and gather a ripe crop at harvest
- qatsarקָצַרto reap, to harvest: to cut down standing grain at harvest time.
reaper1 word
rear2 words
rear guard1 word
- aqevעָקֵבthe heel: the hard back of the foot on a person or an animal, the low point where the body is most easily caught or struck
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- footprints: the tracks feet leave in the ground, and by extension the path a person has walked
- the rear: the back end of a moving or fighting force, the part that trails behind
- aqevעָקֵבthe heel: the hard back of the foot on a person or an animal, the low point where the body is most easily caught or struck
reason7 words
- logosλόγοςa reason, ground, or basis: the cause behind an action, or the case a person makes to defend or explain it.
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- a word, statement, or message: anything that is said, whether a single saying, a whole teaching, or, in its loaded Christian use, the message of the gospel itself.
- an account or reckoning: a settling of the books, the tally a person must hand over for what they have done.
- a matter, affair, or thing: the issue under discussion, the case at hand.
- phroneōφρονέωto have the mind set a certain way: to be leaning in one direction, so that what a person thinks, wants, and cares about all point the same way
- aitiaαἰτίαa reason: the ground or cause that answers why something is so or is done
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- a charge: the stated ground on which someone is accused, found guilty, or condemned
- dialogizomaiδιαλογίζομαιto reason a matter through, weighing it up point by point, whether silently in one's own mind or out loud with others
- dialegōδιαλέγωto talk something through with others: to reason, discuss, and argue a case back and forth
- logosλόγοςa reason, ground, or basis: the cause behind an action, or the case a person makes to defend or explain it.
reason for pride1 word
reasonable1 word
reasoning1 word
- dialogismosδιαλογισμόςan inner reasoning of the heart: the thoughts, deliberations, and designs a person turns over privately, often futile or corrupt
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- a dispute: the quarreling and complaining that breaks out when people press competing views
- dialogismosδιαλογισμόςan inner reasoning of the heart: the thoughts, deliberations, and designs a person turns over privately, often futile or corrupt
reasons for confidence1 word
Reba1 word
Rebekah2 words
rebel6 words
- marahמָרָהto rebel: to defiantly refuse to obey a rightful authority, above all God himself.
- parapikrainōπαραπικραίνωto rebelnot studied yet
- pashahפָּשַׁעto rebel against God: to break faith with the One you owe loyalty to, treating sin as defiance rather than mere failure.
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- to revolt against a ruler: to throw off the authority of a king or overlord and break away.
- maradמָרַדto rebel: to renounce allegiance to a rightful authority and rise up against it
- lēstēsλῃστήςa robber who takes by open force: a violent bandit or highwayman, and by extension an armed rebel.
rebel against1 word
rebellion9 words
- peshahפֶּשַׁעrebellion: the deliberate breaking of a bond you were obligated to keep
- antilogiaἀντιλογίαopposition set against someone or something: from a spoken objection, through a formal dispute, to open rebellion against rightful authority.
- meriמְרִיrebellion: a stubborn refusal to listen to and obey the authority you are bound to, above all God
- apeitheiaἀπείθειαdisobedience toward God: the refusal to be won over by what he has said, which is at once a refusal to obey it and a refusal to believe it
- sarahסָרָהrevolt against God: a turning away from him, and the talk that pushes others into it
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- a serious wrong charged in court: the damaging accusation a hostile witness brings against someone
- a letting up: the stopping of something that has been going on without pause
rebellious4 words
rebels1 word
rebuild4 words
- banahבָּנָהto build: to raise a structure out of parts and materials, and so to establish something meant to stand.
- anoikodomeōἀνοικοδομέωto rebuildnot studied yet
- benahבְּנָהto build: to put up a physical structure such as a temple, house, or city
- ḥadashחָדַשׁto make something new again: to repair, restore, or bring back to fresh condition what is already there
rebuke14 words
- elegchōἐλέγχωto bring a hidden wrong into the open so the wrongdoer must face it, whether by exposing the deed, proving the guilt, rebuking the person, or correcting them in love
- ḥerpahחֶרְפָּהpublic disgrace: the scorn others heap on you and the shame that then sticks to you in their eyes
- oneidizōὀνειδίζωto reproach: to throw a person's fault, real or alleged, in their face with words that shame them in front of others.
- yakhaḥיָכַחto set right: to establish what is just between parties, whether by judging, arguing a case, correcting with words, or disciplining
- epitimaōἐπιτιμάωto rebuke: to speak sharply and with authority to correct, warn, or bring someone or something under control
rebuked1 word
receive17 words
- lambanōλαμβάνωto take or receive: to get something into your hands or into your possession, whether by reaching for it or by accepting what someone gives you
- laqaḥלָקַחto take: to lay hold of someone or something and bring it into your hand, your possession, or your keeping
- klēronomeōκληρονομέωto inherit: to come into secure, rightful possession of something, as an heir receives what is set aside for them
- dechomaiδέχομαιto welcome a person: to take someone in and give them a willing, favorable reception
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- to accept something offered: to take a message, gift, or object to oneself willingly
- paralambanōπαραλαμβάνωto receive a teaching or tradition handed down to you, taking it as your own
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- to take someone or something to your side and bring them along with you
receive back2 words
- komizōκομίζωto bring something along: to carry an object with you and deliver it where it is wanted.
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- to get what is coming to you: to collect for yourself what is owed, promised, or already yours.
- apolambanōἀπολαμβάνωto receive what is coming to you: to get back what was yours, or be handed what your work has earned or a promise has set aside for you
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- to take someone aside, drawing them away from a crowd for a private moment
- komizōκομίζωto bring something along: to carry an object with you and deliver it where it is wanted.
receive in full1 word
- apechōἀπέχωto have received in full: to hold in hand the whole of what was owed, with nothing left outstanding
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- to be far off: to lie at a distance in space, or to be far away in heart
- to abstain: to hold oneself back and deliberately stay away from something
- it is enough: an abrupt exclamation whose exact force is uncertain
- apechōἀπέχωto have received in full: to hold in hand the whole of what was owed, with nothing left outstanding
receive in turn1 word
receive sight1 word
- anablepōἀναβλέπωto receive sight: for a blind person to come to see
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- to look up: to lift the eyes and turn one's gaze upward
- anablepōἀναβλέπωto receive sight: for a blind person to come to see
receive up1 word
receiving1 word
recently1 word
recess1 word
recesses2 words
Rechab1 word
Rechabite1 word
reckless1 word
recklessness2 words
reckon4 words
- paqadפָּקַדto turn one's attention to someone and act on it: to step in, whether to help or to harm.
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- to count people one by one for a purpose: to take a census, or to call up and review fighting men.
- to put someone in charge: to appoint a person over people or things and entrust the responsibility to them.
- to entrust something to someone's keeping: to hand over goods, money, or a charge for safekeeping.
- logizomaiλογίζομαιto credit to an account: to enter something on a person's ledger, so that it officially counts for or against them.
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- to consider: to weigh something in the mind and arrive at a settled judgment about it.
- ḥashavחָשַׁבto reckon: to count something toward an account and treat it as having that value
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- to think something over: to consider, weigh, and form a judgment in the mind
- to devise: to plan or scheme toward an end, good or harmful
- to design: to invent and work out skilled craft or artistic plans
- menahמְנָהto reckon/appointnot studied yet
- paqadפָּקַדto turn one's attention to someone and act on it: to step in, whether to help or to harm.
reckoned by genealogy1 word
recline4 words
- anapiptōἀναπίπτωto recline at a meal: to settle back into the propped-on-one-elbow posture people took at a formal ancient banquet
- anakeimaiἀνάκειμαιto recline at a table to dine; more basically, to lie stretched out
- katakeimaiκατάκειμαιto be lying down: stretched out and staying there, either laid up in bed because of illness or lying on a couch at a meal.
- anaklinōἀνακλίνωto reclinenot studied yet
reclined at table1 word
reclined with1 word
reclining1 word
recognition1 word
recognize4 words
- yadaיָדַעto know: to have or come to have a firm hold on something, whether a fact, a skill, or a person.
- epiginōskōἐπιγινώσκωto recognize or make out who or what someone is, or to find out the facts of a matter
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- to know fully or to acknowledge; to recognize a truth, a person, or God and take a stand on it
- nakharנָכַרto recognize: to look at someone or something and correctly identify what it is
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- to treat as foreign: to make a person or thing strange, whether by disguising, disowning, or failing to know it
- anagnōrizōἀναγνωρίζωto recognizenot studied yet
recommended1 word
recompense10 words
- salemשָׁלֵםto pay back in full: to give a person exactly what their deeds or debts have earned, whether restitution, reward, or punishment
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- to pay a vow: to discharge in full a promise made to God by handing over exactly what was pledged
- to be whole and finished, or to bring something to its finish: to reach completion, or to carry a work through to its end
- to make peace with someone, or to be at peace with them: to end hostility and stand in settled, friendly relations
- antapodidōmiἀνταποδίδωμιto give back in return: to settle an account by handing back what someone's own action has earned, whether a kindness answered or a wrong punished.
- gemulגְּמוּלa dealing: what one person does to another, or the matching return that deed earns; most often a deserved recompense.
- pe'ullahפְּעֻלָּהwhat work brings back: the pay, reward, or payback earned by labor, and at times the labor itself
- misthapodosiaμισθαποδοσίαrecompensenot studied yet
- salemשָׁלֵםto pay back in full: to give a person exactly what their deeds or debts have earned, whether restitution, reward, or punishment
reconcile4 words
reconciliation1 word
record6 words
- graphōγράφωto write: to set words down in writing, and so to put something on lasting record
- katavכָּתַבto write: to set words or signs down on a surface so they last
- marturiaμαρτυρίαtestimony: the act of bearing witness, or the statement a witness gives.
- biblosβίβλοςa book: a whole written work, in practice a rolled scroll, named as a complete volume and usually identified by its author or its contents
- zikhronזִכָּרוֹןa memorial: something set up or kept so that a person, event, or obligation is not forgotten
recount2 words
- sapharסָפַרto count, and so to recount: to take a tally of things, or to tell them over one by one as a story
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- a scribe: a trained official who keeps records, writes documents, and manages affairs of state or temple
- tanahתָּנָהto recountnot studied yet
- sapharסָפַרto count, and so to recount: to take a tally of things, or to tell them over one by one as a story
recover1 word
- komizōκομίζωto bring something along: to carry an object with you and deliver it where it is wanted.
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- to get what is coming to you: to collect for yourself what is owed, promised, or already yours.
- komizōκομίζωto bring something along: to carry an object with you and deliver it where it is wanted.
recover sight1 word
- anablepōἀναβλέπωto look up: to lift the eyes and turn one's gaze upward
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- to receive sight: for a blind person to come to see
- anablepōἀναβλέπωto look up: to lift the eyes and turn one's gaze upward
recovery1 word
- miḥyahמִחְיָהwhat keeps a life going: the rescue, the food, or the returning strength that lets someone survive.
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- the patch of living flesh showing inside a skin sore or a burn.
- miḥyahמִחְיָהwhat keeps a life going: the rescue, the food, or the returning strength that lets someone survive.
recovery of sight1 word
recrucify1 word
red6 words
- eruthrosἐρυθρόςRed (Sea)not studied yet
- suphסוּףthe sea Israel crossed and the arms of the Red Sea, in the fixed phrase "Sea of Reeds" (yam suph)
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- reeds, rushes: the tall marsh plants (probably papyrus) that grow in shallow fresh water
- adamאָדֹםto be red; to become or be made red, ranging from crimson through ruddy to reddish brown
- adomאָדֹםred: describing the color of a thing, anywhere from crimson through ruddy to reddish brown
- ḥamarחָמַרto foam up: to churn hard enough to froth and boil over
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- to coat something with tar: to seal it with bitumen so water cannot get in
red sea1 word
- suphסוּףthe sea Israel crossed and the arms of the Red Sea, in the fixed phrase "Sea of Reeds" (yam suph)
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- reeds, rushes: the tall marsh plants (probably papyrus) that grow in shallow fresh water
- suphסוּףthe sea Israel crossed and the arms of the Red Sea, in the fixed phrase "Sea of Reeds" (yam suph)
red stew1 word
redden1 word
reddish1 word
redeem4 words
- ga'alגָּאַלto act as the next of kin who reclaims what has been lost to the family: buying back land or a relative, avenging a killing, or pleading a relative's cause.
- padahפָּדָהto ransom: to free a person or thing held by another by handing over a substitute in its place
- agorazōἀγοράζωto redeem: to purchase people out of bondage and make them one's own, at the cost of Christ's blood
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- to buy: to acquire something by paying for it in the marketplace
- exagorazōἐξαγοράζωto buy someone out: to pay the price that frees a person from a claim held over them
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- to buy up the available time: to seize an opportunity fully while it is still open
redeemer2 words
redemption5 words
- lutrōsisλύτρωσιςredemptionnot studied yet
- ge'ullahגְּאֻלָּהthe right or act of buying back family land or a relative that has been lost: redemption as a matter of clan law
- apolutrōsisἀπολύτρωσιςthe setting of someone free from bondage, above all the release from sin that Christ secured by his death, along with the full freedom still to come
- pedutפְּדוּתredemptionnot studied yet
- pidyonפִּדְיוֹןredemptionnot studied yet
redemption price1 word
reed3 words
- qanehקָנֶהa reed or stalk: the tall, hollow, jointed plant that grows in water, and any single cane-like stem.
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- a measuring rod: a fixed-length reed used as a surveyor's measuring tool, and the length itself as a unit.
- the shaft and branches of the golden lampstand in the tabernacle.
- the upper arm bone, the long bone running from shoulder to elbow.
- kalamosκάλαμοςa reed: the tall marsh cane, and by extension the everyday things cut from its stalk: a light staff, a writing pen, or a measuring rod
- gomeגֹּמֶאreednot studied yet
- qanehקָנֶהa reed or stalk: the tall, hollow, jointed plant that grows in water, and any single cane-like stem.
reeds2 words
- suphסוּףreeds, rushes: the tall marsh plants (probably papyrus) that grow in shallow fresh water
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- the sea Israel crossed and the arms of the Red Sea, in the fixed phrase "Sea of Reeds" (yam suph)
- agamאֲגַםstanding water: a natural pool, pond, or reedy marsh where water collects and sits rather than flowing or springing up
- suphסוּףreeds, rushes: the tall marsh plants (probably papyrus) that grow in shallow fresh water
reef1 word
reel5 words
- ta'ahתָּעָהto stray from the right course: to wander off and lose the way, or to be led off it
- shagahשָׁגָהto go astray: to wander off the right course, whether on a path, in conduct, or through the loss of steady judgment
- ḥagagחָגַגto reel, stagger, or whirl about
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- to keep a pilgrimage festival; to celebrate an appointed sacred feast
- ga'ashגָּעַשׁto heave and lurch: to be thrown into violent rocking motion, the way ground bucks in an earthquake or water churns in a flood
- puqפּוּקto reelnot studied yet
Reelaiah1 word
reeling2 words
refine3 words
- tsaraphצָרַףto refine metal by fire: to melt down silver or gold and burn out its impurities, and by extension to test and prove something until only what is pure remains
- bararבָּרַרto sift out the good from the bad, leaving what is pure, clean, or choice
- zaqaqזָקַקto refine by drawing off what is impure: to bring gold, silver, wine, or water to a clean state by taking out of it whatever does not belong
refined1 word
reflect1 word
reflect on1 word
reflection2 words
reformation1 word
refrain5 words
- pheidomaiφείδομαιto hold back from the harm, hardship, or action you have every power to carry out
- pauōπαύωto stop, cease: to bring or come to a halt, leaving off an action or letting something run out
- ḥasakhחָשַׂךְto hold back: to keep a thing from being handed over, a person from acting, or a blow from falling
- aphaqאָפַקto hold yourself in: to keep a strong feeling or an urge from breaking out
- aganעָגַןto refrainnot studied yet
refrained1 word
refresh3 words
refreshment1 word
refuge9 words
- ma'ozמָעוֹזa place or source of safety and strength: a fortress to shelter behind, or the protection a person leans on for security
- maḥasehמַחְסֶּהrefuge: a place you run to for cover and safety, whether a rock in a storm or God himself
- miqlatמִקְלָטa place of asylum: a city set apart to take in and shelter someone who has killed another person by accident
- ma'onמָעוֹןa dwelling place or abode: the settled home where someone or something lives
- misgavמִשְׂגָּבa place set so high it cannot be reached, and so a place of perfect safety
refugee1 word
refuse16 words
- apostrephōἀποστρέφωto turn away or turn back: to send a person or thing away from what it was facing, and so to remove it, put it back, or refuse it
- apōtheōἀπωθέωto push something away from yourself: to shove a person off, and so to refuse or cast aside
- ma'asמָאַסto reject: to refuse someone or something as worthless and push it away
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- to flow away or run: to dissolve and drain off like water or a sore
- avahאָבָהto be willing: to consent and go along with what someone else asks or wants
- ma'enמָאֵןto refuse: to set oneself against doing what is asked, commanded, or offered, and decline to do it
refuse heap1 word
refuse to listen1 word
refusing2 words
refute1 word
regain his sight1 word
- anablepōἀναβλέπωto look up: to lift the eyes and turn one's gaze upward
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- to receive sight: for a blind person to come to see
- anablepōἀναβλέπωto look up: to lift the eyes and turn one's gaze upward
regain senses1 word
regard7 words
- hēgeomaiἡγέομαιto lead a community: to go in front of others as their guide and head
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- to consider: to reach a deliberate, weighed verdict about the worth or truth of something
- panahפָּנָהto turn so as to face a direction, person, or thing, with all that the turn implies: to look toward, attend to, or move away from
- navatנָבַטto look intently: to fix the eyes or the attention on something with real interest, not a passing glance
- entrepōἐντρέπωto pull someone up short with the sting of being in the wrong, or to be pulled up short that way
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- to let another person's standing weigh on you enough to change what you do: to respect, to defer to
- nakharנָכַרto recognize: to look at someone or something and correctly identify what it is
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- to treat as foreign: to make a person or thing strange, whether by disguising, disowning, or failing to know it
- hēgeomaiἡγέομαιto lead a community: to go in front of others as their guide and head
regard as detestable1 word
Regem1 word
Regem-melech1 word
regeneration1 word
regiment1 word
region7 words
- horionὅριονthe territory belonging to a town or a people: its district, the land lying inside its recognized limits
- chōraχώραa bounded stretch of land: a region, the countryside, or a field, with the scale set by context
- merosμέροςa part of a whole: a piece, share, region, or side, as set against the entirety
- ḥevelחֶבֶלa measured portion of land: an allotted territory or region, marked off as if by a measuring line
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- a cord or rope: a length of twisted fiber used to bind, lift, hold, or measure
- a band or company: a group of people bound together as a unit
- pangs: the sharp, gripping pains of childbirth, used as an image of sudden anguish
- iאִיcoastland: land bordering or set within the sea, from a single shore or island out to the far-off maritime regions and the peoples who live there
region round about1 word
register2 words
registered1 word
regret2 words
regulation1 word
- dikaiōmaδικαίωμαa binding rule of what is right: a regulation, statute, or decree laid down by rightful authority
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- a righteous act: a concrete deed that is right, something actually carried out rather than merely intended
- a verdict of acquittal: the ruling that clears a person and places them in the right
- dikaiōmaδικαίωμαa binding rule of what is right: a regulation, statute, or decree laid down by rightful authority