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Strong's #7574 - רֹתֶם
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- broom-plant, retem
- a kind of broom plant
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2802) mtr (רתמ RTM) AC: Attach CO: Harness AB: ?: The harnessing of rig for attaching horses to a wagon or chariot. [from: tr- binding]
V) mtr (רתמ RTM) - Attach: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) bind - Strongs: H7573 (רָתַם)
Nm) mtr (רתמ RTM) - Retem: An unknown tree. KJV (4): juniper - Strongs: H7574 (רֹתֶם)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
רֹתֶם m. (1 Kings 19:4 כתיב f.) pl. רְתָמִים 1 Kings 19:4, 1 Kings 19:5; Job 30:4; Psalms 120:4 according to the Hebrews, and Jerome, juniper; more correctly, i.q. Arab. رَتَمَةُ genista, broom (spartium junceum, Linn.), a shrub growing in the deserts of Arabia, with yellowish flowers, and a bitter root, which the poor were accustomed to eat (Job loc. cit.). It is so called from binding, like juncus a jungendo, Binfen from the verb binden. See Cels. Hierobot. tom. i. p. 246. Oedmann, Vermischte Sammlungen aus der Naturkunde, fase. 2, chap. 8.