מֶרְחָב
merchâb · H4800 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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broad
Literally: broadness; hence: a relatively large area of open land
ExamplesHosea 4:16 Since Israel is stubborn Like a stubborn cow, Will the LORD now pasture them Like a lamb in a large field?
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at ease
Literally: broadness; hence: a situation in which humans experience relief after a time of trouble
Examples2 Samuel 22:20 “He also brought me out into an open place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me.
Psalm 18:19 He also brought me out into an open place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 6
- בin/on/with 5
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- רֶוַח revach · H7305 · space, distance, relief
- Both terms denote spatial openness or room — a large place versus space or enlargement — overlapping concepts of relief through open space.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Land001002002
- The word denotes an open, spacious place, as the broad, open ground into which the psalmist was brought out of his distress.
- Relief002001002023
- The word carries the sense of deliverance into relief and spaciousness after distress, as the psalmist's cry from confinement answered by being set in an open space.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4800. merchab מֶרְחָב noun [masculine] broad, roomy, place; — absolute ׳מ, of pasture…
מֶרְחָב noun [masculine] broad, roomy, place; — absolute ׳מ, of pasture Hos 4:16 (in simile); figurative of freedom from distress and anxiety 2Sa 22:20 = Psa 18:20; Psa 31:9; Psa 118:5 (ᵑ0 construct in מֶרְחַבְיָה spacious place of Yah, i.e. extraordinarily spacious, < יָהּ יָהּ, מֶרְחָב being subject of verb); plural construct מֶרְחֲבֵיאֶֿרֶץ Hab 1:6 expanses of the earth.
רחה (√ of following; meaning unknown; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic handmill (compare WetzstSiebe, ZPV xiv (1891), 4); Aramaic רִיחְיָא, ; LagBN 157 BaNB 9, 21).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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