רָוַח
râvach · H7304 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to be spacious
State in which a room or building provides is large and provides plenty of space
ExamplesJeremiah 22:14 Who says, ‘I will build myself a large house With spacious upstairs rooms, And cut out its windows, Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’
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to be relieved
Literally: to get space; hence: process by which humans find relief after a period of hardship
Examples1 Samuel 16:23 So it came about whenever the evil spirit from God came to Saul, David would take the harp and play it with his hand; and Saul would feel relieved and become well, and the evil spirit would leave him.
Job 32:20 “Let me speak so that I may get relief; Let me open my lips and answer.
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
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for+ שָׁאוּלSaul 1
- לto/for+ נִיme 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- רָחַב râchab · H7337 · to be large, to be broad, to become larger
- Both words indicate spatial largeness or spaciousness, and both extend further into a sense of relief or rejoicing; they are distinct Hebrew roots that can substitute for each other in contexts involving spatial or emotional enlargement and relief.
Semantic domains 5 entries
- Smell002004001007
- This domain is shared with the homograph meaning "to smell" (רוּחַ (rûwach, H7306)); it is not independently illustrated by this word's own sampled citations, which all concern relief or spaciousness.
- Rejoice002001002022
- This domain is shared with the same homograph; it is not independently illustrated by this word's own sampled citations.
- Space002002001017
- The word's "large, spacious" sense is directly illustrated by the builder who plans "a large house with spacious upstairs rooms" (Jeremiah 22:14).
- Large002001001037
- The same citation directly illustrates this sense, describing a house built deliberately large with roomy upper chambers (Jeremiah 22:14).
- Relief002001002023
- The word's "be refreshed, get relief" sense is directly illustrated by David playing the harp so that Saul "would feel relieved" (1 Samuel 16:23) and Elihu's wish to "get relief" by speaking (Job 32:20).
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7304. ravach רָרַח verb be wide, spacious (Late Hebrew id., extend (intransitive), רֶוַח…
רָרַח verb be wide, spacious (Late Hebrew id., extend (intransitive), רֶוַח wide space; Arabic be wide (between thighs), and derivatives; compare perhaps Ethiopic make open, open (derived species; Di293); Aramaic רְוַח be wide (usually figurative as Hebrew), , be wide, enlarged); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳ר, followed by ל person 1Sa 16:23 figurative there was enlargement, relief, for Saul; Imperfect3masculine singular לִי יִרְוַח Job 32:20 that there may be relief for me.
Pu`al Participle plural מְרֻוָּחִים Jer 22:14 spacious (of rooms; || מִדּוֺת בֵּות).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 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
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