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rḥym (rəḥīm) adj. beloved
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beloved
Common Aramaic
SYAP 2:6↗ רחימוי קיריס‏ : the Lord's beloved ones ; TN Deut33:12↗ רחימה דייי‏ ; AphDem9.187:22↗ ܪܚܝܡ ܥܠ ܪ̈ܡܐ ܘܥܠ ܡܟ̈ܝܟܐ‏ ; PJ Gen29:31↗ לא הוה לאה רחימתא באנפי יעקב‏ : Leah was not beloved in Jacob's opinion
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loving
Palmyrene, Syr
PAT260:1.3↗ dḥlˀ ˀlhyˀ wrḥymˀ mdythwn : believers in the gods and lovers of their city-state
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Easily confused with rḥwm adj. in Jewish texts.
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For Palm. in active sense, cf. Gk. [φ]ιλοπατρισι; see PAT s.v.
If there is a semantic difference between rḥwm and rḥym, it is not clear.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 1455[724]DJPA: 520bDJBA: 1068aJastrow: 1466Drower/Macuch: 426bJ. Payne-Smith: 537Levy Ch-W: 2:416DNWSI: 1067

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