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# רָוַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7304

**be wide** — used 3 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

be wide [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7304/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָוַח: vb. be wide, spacious [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7304/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be wide, spacious (NH id., extend (intrans.), רֶוַח wide space; Arabic رَوِحَ be wide (between thighs), and deriv.; cf. perhaps Ethiopic ረኀወ make open, open (der. spec.; Di 293); Aramaic רְוַח be wide (usually fig. as Heb.), ܪܳܚ, ܪܘܰܚ be wide, enlarged);— Pf. 3 ms. ר׳, sq. ל pers. 1 S 16:23 fig. there was enlargement, relief, for Saul; Impf. 3 ms. יִרְוַח לִי Jb 32:20 that there may be relief for me. Pt. pl. מְרֻוָּחִים Je 22:14 spacious (of rooms; ‖ בֵּית מִדּוֹת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it was relief (1); spacious (1); that it may be relief (1).

## In the verses

[Job 32:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.20/#tree)

אֲדַבְּרָ֥ה וְיִֽרְוַֽח־לִ֑י אֶפְתַּ֖ח שְׂפָתַ֣י וְאֶֽעֱנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* let.me.speak so that.it.may.be.relief to me let.me.open lips my so that.I.may.answer

*JPS 1917:* I will speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.

[Jeremiah 22:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.14/#tree)

הָאֹמֵ֗ר אֶבְנֶה־לִּי֙ בֵּ֣ית מִדּ֔וֹת וַעֲלִיּ֖וֹת מְרֻוָּחִ֑ים וְקָ֤רַֽע לוֹ֙ חַלּוֹנָ֔י וְסָפ֣וּן בָּאָ֔רֶז וּמָשׁ֖וֹחַ בַּשָּׁשַֽׁר׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].says I.will.build for myself a.house of.size(s) and upper.rooms spacious and he.will.tear for himself windows my and paneled with (the) cedar and he.will.smear.\[it\] with (the) vermilion

*JPS 1917:* That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7304.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7304/): 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).