Lexicon
רוּד
rud
H7300
H:V Hebrew

to roam

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Hebrew
Language

rud describes roaming or moving about, explicitly linked with release from a yoke in Genesis 27:40.

The attested use centers on roaming or moving about: Genesis 27:40 explicitly connects it with tearing a yoke from the neck, while the other occurrences stand in clauses concerning pursuit, freedom, and distress, though the translation does not always isolate the term's contribution.

Senses in use

  1. Roaming or moving about · dominant

    In Genesis 27:40, the Hiphil imperfect form occurs in the statement that, when the addressee roams, he will tear his brother's yoke from his neck; the APB renders the clause "when you roam." The Qal participle in Hosea 12:1 occurs in a clause the APB renders with Ephraim pursuing the east wind, while the Qal perfect in Jeremiah 2:31 stands with the people's statement, "We are free; we will come no more to You?" Psalm 55:3 has a Hiphil imperfect form in the speaker's distressed complaint, but the APB does not plainly represent its specific contribution.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly renders the Genesis 27:40 clause "when you roam." Elsewhere it presents surrounding ideas of pursuit, freedom, and distress, but its loose, whole-verse wording does not consistently identify an English equivalent for the term.

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