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# רַחַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7338

**breadth** — used 2 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

breadth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7338/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַ֫חַב: breadth, broad expanse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7338/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m. not f. Jb 36:16 AlbrZAW xvl (1896), 94 Di Bu\] breadth, broad expanse;—abs. ר׳ Jb 36:16 (opp. צָ֑ר); pl. cstr. intens. רַחֲבֵי־אָ֑רֶץ 38:18 the broad expanse of earth.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] broad spaces (1); a broad space (1).

## In the verses

[Job 38:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.18/#tree)

הִ֭תְבֹּנַנְתָּ עַד־רַחֲבֵי־אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם־יָדַ֥עְתָּ כֻלָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* have.you.shown.yourself.attentive? to \[the\].broad.spaces of.\[the\].earth tell if you.know of.it all

*JPS 1917:* Hast thou surveyed unto the breadths of the earth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.

[Job 36:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.16/#tree)

וְאַ֤ף הֲסִיתְךָ֨ ׀ מִפִּי־צָ֗ר רַ֭חַב לֹא־מוּצָ֣ק תַּחְתֶּ֑יהָ וְנַ֥חַת שֻׁ֝לְחָנְךָ֗ מָ֣לֵא דָֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* and also he has.allured.you from.\[the\] mouth of.distress a.broad.space not constraint in its.place and the.quietness your.table your it.was.full fatness

*JPS 1917:* Yea, He hath allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table is full of fatness;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7338.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7338/): 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).