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# מֶרְחָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4801

**distant place** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

distant place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4801/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶרְחָק²: n.m. distant place, distance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4801/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. distant place, distance;—abs. מ׳ Is 10:3 +, מֶרְחַק ψ 138:6; pl. מֶרְחַקִּים Zc 10:9, מַר׳ Is 33:17; Je 8:19, cstr. מֶרְחַקֵּי־ Is 8:9;—distant place, far country Is 8:9 Zc 10:9; often c. צֶרֶץ: א׳ (ה)מֶרְחָק land of distance, distant land Is 13:5; 46:11; Je 4:16; 6:20; Pr 25:25, so c. pl. א׳ מרחקים Je 8:19, land of distances, i.e. of wide extent, Is 33:17; מִמּ׳ from far Is 10:3; 30:27 Je 5:15; Ez 23:40 Pr 31:14; fig. ψ 138:6; מִמּ׳ at a distance Je 31:10, to a distance Is 17:13.—בֵּית הַמּ׳ v. p. 112.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a distance (8); of distance (4); \[the\] distant places (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 31:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.14/#tree)

הָ֭יְתָה כָּאֳנִיּ֣וֹת סוֹחֵ֑ר מִ֝מֶּרְחָ֗ק תָּבִ֥יא לַחְמָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* she.is like.\[the\] ships of.a.trader from a.distance she.brings food her

*JPS 1917:* She is like the merchant-ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

[Isaiah 33:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.17/#tree)

מֶ֥לֶךְ בְּיָפְי֖וֹ תֶּחֱזֶ֣ינָה עֵינֶ֑יךָ תִּרְאֶ֖ינָה אֶ֥רֶץ מַרְחַקִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* a.king in beauty his they.will.see eyes your they.will.see a.land of.distances

*JPS 1917:* Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold a land stretching afar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4801.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4801/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).