יֶרַח yerach

Hebrew word for “month” · Strong’s H3391 · used 12 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

1) month (lunar cycle), moon; 1a) month; 1b) calendar month; Aramaic equivalent: ye.rach (יְרַח "month" H3393)

How it is translated

Glosses given for yerach in context, with how often each is used:

• month 6
• months 5
• like months 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 6 (2), Exodus 2 (1), Deuteronomy 21 (1), Deuteronomy 33 (1), 1 Kings 8 (1), 2 Kings 15 (1), Job 3 (1), Job 7 (1), Job 29 (1), Job 39 (1)

Forms

• ירחים 4
• בירח 4
• ירח 2
• ירחי 1
• כירחי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yerach more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 4
• לַיְלָה laylah “night” 2
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 2
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 2
• יָלַד yalad “to beget” 2
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 2
• כֵּן ken “so” 2
• אֶחָד echad “one” 2
• נִי ni “me” 2

Key verses

The verses using yerach that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 2:2 — And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
• Deuteronomy 21:13 — And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that…
• Deuteronomy 33:14 — And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
• 1 Kings 6:37 — In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
• 1 Kings 6:38 — And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the…
• 1 Kings 8:2 — And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
• 2 Kings 15:13 — Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.
• Job 3:6 — As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
• Job 7:3 — So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
• Job 29:2 — Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
• Job 39:2 — Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
• Zechariah 11:8 — Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.