יָרֵחַ yareach

Hebrew word for “moon” · Strong’s H3394 · used 27 times in 27 verses

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Meaning

moon

How it is translated

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

• moon 26
• like the moon 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 10 (2), Psalms 72 (2), Isaiah 60 (2), Joel 2 (2), Genesis 37 (1), Deuteronomy 4 (1), Deuteronomy 17 (1), 2 Kings 23 (1), Job 25 (1), Job 31 (1)

Forms

• וירח 9
• ירח 7
• והירח 3
• הירח 3
• ולירח 2
• לירח 1
• כירח 1
• וירחך 1

Words used with it

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

• שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh “sun” 21
• כּוֹכָב kokhav “star” 12
• אוֹר or “light” 9
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 9
• נֹגַהּ nogah “brightness” 4
• קָדַר qadar “be dark” 3
• שָׁחָה shachah “to bow” 4
• צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 5
• אָסַף asaph “to gather” 4
• יוֹמָם yomam “by day” 3
• עוֹלָם olam “forever” 4
• הָלַל halal “to boast” 3

Key verses

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

• Deuteronomy 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to…
• Joshua 10:12 — Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand…
• Joshua 10:13 — And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun…
• Psalms 8:3 — When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
• Psalms 72:7 — In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
• Isaiah 13:10 — For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause…
• Isaiah 60:19 — The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light,…
• Jeremiah 8:2 — And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have…
• Jeremiah 31:35 — Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when…
• Ezekiel 32:7 — And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her…
• Joel 2:10 — The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
• Joel 2:31 — The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

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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.