# H7363 רָחַף

רָחַף (râchaph), Strong’s H7363: to brood; by implication, to be relaxed KJV: flutter, move, shake.. Occurs 3 times.

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*râchaph* — to brood; by implication, to be relaxed

KJV: flutter, move, shake.

Occurs 3 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [רָחַף] vb. grow soft, relax (cf. Ar. be soft);—
- Qal Pf. 3 pl. רָֽחֲפוּ Je 23:9 (bones of one appalled).
- רָחַף vb
- רָחַף vb. Pi. hover (NH id., cf. Grünbaum ZMG xxxix (1885), 607; Syr. Pa. move gently, also cherish, and brood, cf. Thes S. V.; connexion with I. ר׳ dub.);—
- Pi. Impf. 3 ms. יְרַחֵף עַל Dt 32:11 (poem) of vulture hovering over young; Pt. רוּחַ א׳ מְרַהֶפֶת עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּ֑יִם Gn 1:2(P); hovering over face of waters, or perh. (v. Syr.) brooding (and fertilizing), so Jer Quaest. In Gen. ed. Lag. 4 (reading ‘marahaefeth’), cf. Di Gunk.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=2) — The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…
- [Deuteronomy 32:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=11) — As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore…
- [Jeremiah 23:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/23?v=9) — Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom…