רָחֵל Ewe
Every verse in which this word stands — 4 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.
The rachel, the mother ewe — silent before her shearers in Yeshayahu 53. Rachel the matriarch bears this word as her name; she is her own lexicon entry, counted on the names lists, not here.
זֶה עֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה אָנֹכִי עִמָּךְ רְחֵלֶיךָ וְעִזֶּיךָ לֹא שִׁכֵּלוּ וְאֵילֵי צֹאנְךָ לֹא אָכָֽלְתִּי
These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.
עִזִּים מָאתַיִם וּתְיָשִׁים עֶשְׂרִים רְחֵלִים מָאתַיִם וְאֵילִים עֶשְׂרִֽים
two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
נִגַּשׂ וְהוּא נַעֲנֶה וְלֹא יִפְתַּח־פִּיו כַּשֶּׂה לַטֶּבַח יוּבָל וּכְרָחֵל לִפְנֵי גֹזְזֶיהָ נֶאֱלָמָה וְלֹא יִפְתַּח פִּֽיו
He was oppressed, though he humbled himself And opened not his mouth; As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, And as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb; Yea, he opened not his mouth.
שִׁנַּיִךְ כְּעֵדֶר הָֽרְחֵלִים שֶׁעָלוּ מִן־הָרַחְצָה שֶׁכֻּלָּם מַתְאִימוֹת וְשַׁכֻּלָה אֵין בָּהֶֽם
Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which are come up from the washing; Whereof all are paired, And none faileth among them.
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Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for ewe?
Ewe in Hebrew is רחל, with a gematria of 238 in the standard method.
How many times is the ewe mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 4 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 31:38.
A spelling is not a word. The bare letters רחל stand 32 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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