מֶרְחָק
merchâq · H4801 · Hebrew · 18 occurrences
Meanings
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far, distant
State in which humans, deities, objects, or events are located in a place that is at a relatively great distance from the point of reference
Examples2 Samuel 15:17 The king left, and all the people with him, and they stopped at the last house.
Proverbs 25:25 Like cold water to a weary soul, So is good news from a distant land.
Proverbs 31:14 She is like merchant ships; She brings her food from afar.
How it’s used In 3 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
9 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 15
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
8 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 7
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- μακρόθεν makróthen · G3113 · far, at a distance, some distance away
- Greek μακρόθεν specifically denotes spatial distance with an adverbial 'from afar' sense, serving as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew מֶרְחָק's core distance concept across both noun and adverbial uses.
- πόῤῥωθεν pórrhōthen · G4207 · far ahead of time, long before, far away
- Greek adverbial form πόῤῥωθεν renders Hebrew noun מֶרְחָק in spatial distance contexts; both denote physical remoteness ('from far off').
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Space002002001017
- The word denotes a far or distant place, describing spatial remoteness.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4801. merchaq מֶרְחָק noun masculine distant place, distance; — absolute ׳מ Isa 10:3 +,…
מֶרְחָק noun masculine distant place, distance; — absolute ׳מ Isa 10:3 +, מֶרְחַק Psa 138:6; plural מֶרְחַקִּים Zec 10:9, ׳מַר Isa 33:17; Jer 8:19, construct מֶרְחַקֵּיֿ Isa 8:9; — distant place, far country Isa 8:9; Zec 10:9; often with אֶרֶץ: ׳א מֶרְחָק (ה) land of distance, distant land Isa 13:5; Isa 46:11; Jer 4:16; Jer 6:20; Pro 25:25, so with plural ׳א מרחקים Jer 8:19, land of distances, i.e. of wide extent, Isa 33:17; ׳מִמּ from far Isa 10:3; Isa 30:27; Jer 5:15; Eze 23:40; Pro 31:14; figurative Psa 138:6; ׳מִמּ at a distance Jer 31:10, to a distance Isa 17:13. — הַמּ ׳בֵּית.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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