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# רָחָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7343

**Rahab** — used 5 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

Rahab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7343/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָחָב²: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7343/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. harlot in Jericho;—Jos 2:1, 3; 6:17, 23, 25 (all JE); Ρααβ (so Heb 3:11; Jas 2:25, but Mt 1:5 Ραχαβ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Rahab (4); \[was\] Rahab (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 2:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.2.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.2.3/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְרִיח֔וֹ אֶל־רָחָ֖ב לֵאמֹ֑ר ה֠וֹצִיאִי הָאֲנָשִׁ֨ים הַבָּאִ֤ים אֵלַ֙יִךְ֙ אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֣אוּ לְבֵיתֵ֔ךְ כִּ֛י לַחְפֹּ֥ר אֶת־כָּל־הָאָ֖רֶץ בָּֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent the.king of.Jericho to Rahab (cmp) bring.out the men \[who\] came to you who they.came to house your (dm) to spy.out (et) all the land they.have.come

*JPS 1917:* And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying: 'Bring forth the men that are come to thee, that are entered into thy house; for they are come to search out all the land.'

[Joshua 6:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.6.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.6.17/#tree)

וְהָיְתָ֨ה הָעִ֥יר חֵ֛רֶם הִ֥יא וְכָל־אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֖הּ לַֽיהוָ֑ה רַק֩ רָחָ֨ב הַזּוֹנָ֜ה תִּֽחְיֶ֗ה הִ֚יא וְכָל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִתָּ֣הּ בַּבַּ֔יִת כִּ֣י הֶחְבְּאַ֔תָה אֶת־הַמַּלְאָכִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁלָֽחְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be the city a.devoted.thing it and all that \[is\].in it to Yahweh only Rahab the prostitute she.will.live she and every \[one\].who \[is\].with her in the house (dm) she.hid (et) the messengers whom we.sent

*JPS 1917:* And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to the LORD; only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7343.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7343/): 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).