רָחָב
râchâb · H7342 · Hebrew · 21 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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broad, large, spacious
State in which an object is large in size
ExamplesGenesis 34:21 “These men are friendly to us; therefore let them live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. We will take their daughters in marriage, and give our daughters to them.
Exodus 3:8 “So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Judges 18:10 “When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people with a spacious land; for God has handed it over to you, a place where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth.”
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pride, arrogance
Literally: broad of heart; hence: state in which humans have a high status in their own thinking
ExamplesPsalm 101:5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; I will not endure one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart.
Proverbs 21:4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
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broad, spread out, having a wide scope
Literally: broad; hence: state in which an activity has many aspects to it or has a wide scope
ExamplesNehemiah 4:19 And I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “The work is great and extensive, and we are separated on the wall far from one another.
Psalm 119:96 I have seen a limit to all perfection; Your commandment is exceedingly broad.
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Broad Wall
Literally: broad wall; hence: name of part of the wall of Jerusalem during the time of Nehemiah
ExamplesNehemiah 3:8 Next to him Uzziel the son of Harhaiah of the goldsmiths made repairs. And next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.
Nehemiah 12:38 The second choir proceeded to the left, while I followed them with half of the people on the wall, above the Tower of Furnaces, to the Broad Wall,
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at ease
Literally: a broad place; hence: a situation in which humans experience relief after a time of trouble
ExamplesPsalm 119:45 And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts.
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greedy
Literally: wide of gullet; hence: state in which humans are not satisfied with what they have and desire for more
ExamplesProverbs 28:25 An arrogant person stirs up strife, But one who trusts in the LORD will prosper.
How it’s used In 6 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
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- לֵבheart, mind 1
- לֵבָבheart, mind 1
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יָםsea 1
- נִירlamp 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גָּרָהto provoke 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חַטָּאָהsin, sin offering 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 2
- מְלָאכָהwork 1
- מִצְוָהcommandment, command 1
- עִירcity, town 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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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Semantic domains 7 entries
- Large002001001037
- The word means broad or spacious, directly illustrated by "the land is large enough for them" (Genesis 34:21), the "good and spacious land" promised to Israel (Exodus 3:8), and "a spacious land" awaiting Dan (Judges 18:10).
- Great002001002012
- This domain is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations, which all concern spatial largeness rather than magnitude of another kind.
- Intense002001003011
- This domain is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations.
- Names of Constructions003001003
- The word names a specific structure, directly illustrated by Jerusalem's own "Broad Wall" repaired by Uzziel and Hananiah (Nehemiah 3:8).
- Relief002001002023
- This domain is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations, which describe spacious land rather than relief from distress.
- Wish002004002001001
- This domain reflects the word's idiomatic "wide of soul/appetite" sense for insatiable desire; it is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations, which all concern literal spaciousness of land.
- Names of People003001007
- This domain is shared with the identically spelled personal name Rahab (רָחָב (Râchâb, H7343)); it is not independently illustrated by this word's own sampled citations, which all concern the common adjective.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7342. rachab I. רָחָב21 adjective wide, broad; — absolute ׳ר Job 30:14; construct רְחַב…
I. רָחָב21 adjective wide, broad; — absolute ׳ר Job 30:14; construct רְחַב Pro 21:4 +; feminine singular רְחָבָה Exo 3:8 +; construct רַחֲבַת Gen 34:21 +; masculine plural construct רַחֲבֵי Isa 33:21; — wide, broad, spacious, of land Exo 3:8 (J), Neh 9:35, יָדַיִם רַחֲבַת, etc., Gen 34:21 Gen 34:6t., see יָד 3d; ׳ר מִנִּייָֿם Job 11:9 (of greatness of God, || מֵאֶרֶץ אֲרֻכָּה); בָּֽרְחָבָה as substantive Psa 119:45 in a wide, roomy, space (figurative); ר ׳מֶּרֶץ Job 30:14 (simile); of cup Eze 23:32 (in figurative; + הָעֲמֻקָּה); of wall (= thick) Jer 51:58; specifically, in Jerusalem (as proper name) הָֽר ׳הַחוֺמָה Neh 3:8; Neh 12:38; figurative extensive, of work, undertaking, מְלָאכָה, Neh 4:19 (+הַרְבֵּה); of ׳יs commandment Psa 119:96 (i.e. unlimited, measureless); לֵבָב רְחַב Psa 101:5 i.e. exultant, arrogant (|| גְּבַהּעֵֿינַיִם), so ׳ר לֵב Pro 21:4 (|| ׳רוּםעֿ); נֶפֶשׁ רְחַב Pro 28:25 i.e. greedy (compare אולת רחב Ecclus 47:23c, in play on רְחַבְעָם).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 7 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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