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# רָחָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7342

**wide** — used 21 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

wide [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7342/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָחָב: adj. wide, broad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7342/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. wide, broad;—abs. ר׳ Jb 30:14; cstr. רְחַב Pr 21:4 +; fs. רְחָבָה Ex 3:8 +; cstr. רַחֲבַת Gn 34:21 +; mpl. cstr. רַחֲבֵי Is 33:21;—wide, broad, spacious, of land Ex 3:8 (J), Ne 9:35, רַחֲבַת יָדַיִם, etc., Gn 34:21 + 6 times, v. יָד 3 d; ר׳ מִנִּי־יָם Jb 11:9 (of greatness of God, ‖ אֲרֻכָּה מֵאֶרֶץ); בָּֽרְחָבָה as subst. ψ 119:45 in a wide, roomy, space (fig.); פֶּרֶץ ר׳ Jb 30:14 (sim.); of cup Ez 23:32 (in fig.; + הָעֲמֻקָּה); of wall (= thick) Je 51:58; specif., in Jerusalem (as n.pr.) הַחוֹמָה הָֽר׳ Ne 3:8; 12:38; fig. extensive, of work, undertaking, מְלָאכָה, Ne 4:13 (+ הַרְבֵּה); of י׳’s commandment ψ 119:96 (i.e. unlimited, measureless); רְחַב לֵבָב 101:5 i.e. exultant, arrogant (‖ גְּבַהּ־עֵינַיִם), so ר׳ לֵב Pr 21:4 (‖ רוּם־ע׳); רְחַב נֶפֶשׁ Pr 28:25 i.e. greedy (cf. רחב אולת Ecclus 47:23c, in play on רְחַבְעָם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: broad (8); \[is\] broad (3); \[was\] broad (2).

## In the verses

[Job 30:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.14/#tree)

כְּפֶ֣רֶץ רָחָ֣ב יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ תַּ֥חַת שֹׁ֝אָ֗ה הִתְגַּלְגָּֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* like a.breach wide they.come under devastation they.have.rolled.themselves

*JPS 1917:* As through a wide breach they come; in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.

[Proverbs 21:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.4/#tree)

רוּם־עֵ֭ינַיִם וּרְחַב־לֵ֑ב נִ֖ר רְשָׁעִ֣ים חַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* haughtiness of.eyes and a.\[person\].wide of.heart \[the\].lamp of.wicked.\[people\] \[is\].sin

*JPS 1917:* A haughty look, and a proud heart — the tillage of the wicked is sin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7342.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7342/): 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).