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# רֹחַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7341

**breadth** — used 101 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/1512/7341/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֹ֫חַב: breadth, width [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7341/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] breadth, width;—ר׳ abs. Ez 42:2 +, cstr. 1 K 6:3 +; sf. רָחְבּוֹ Ex 25:10 +, -בָּהּ Gn 6:15 +, רָחְבָּן Ez 42:11;—breadth, of land, + אֹרֶךְ = whole extent, expanse, Gn 13:17 (J), so ר׳ alone Is 8:8; ר׳ מַיִם Jb 37:10; fig. ר׳ לֵב largeness of understanding (like sand of sea-shore) 1 K 5:9; breadth, = thickness, of wall גֶּדֶר Ez 42:10; elsewhere only in measurements width, breadth (Dt 3:11, K 10 times, Ez 54 times, Zc 2:6; 5:2, P 23 times, Ch 6 times; ‖ אֹרֶךְ 1 K 7:6 + 63 times, + קוֹמָה 6:2 + 14 times, + גֹּבַהּ † Ez 40:42; 2 Ch 3:4; ‖ קוֹמָה alone † 1 K 7:27; Ez 40:5): of buildings, etc., 1 K 6:2, 3(×2), 6(×3) +, Ez 41:1(×3), 5, 7 +, altar Ex 27:1 = 38:1, ark, תֵּבָה, Gn 6:15, אָרוֹן Ex 25:10 = 37:1, etc.; of area, the עֶרֶשׂ of Og Dt 3:11, the תְּרוּמָה of land Ez 45:1, 3, 5, 6 +, of court Ex 27:12, 13, 18; of city Zc 2:6; of roll 5:2; of curtain Ex 26:2, 8 +, etc.; of wall (קִיד), = thickness, Ez 41:9, 12 (cf. 42:10 supr.); of doorway 40:11; 41:2, 3, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 40 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, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: breadth (69); the breadth (16); \[the\] breadth (11).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.16/#tree)

רָב֥וּעַ יִֽהְיֶ֖ה כָּפ֑וּל זֶ֥רֶת אָרְכּ֖וֹ וְזֶ֥רֶת רָחְבּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* square it.will.be folded.double \[will.be\].a.span length its and \[will.be\].a.span breadth its

*JPS 1917:* Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.

[Job 37:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.10/#tree)

מִנִּשְׁמַת־אֵ֥ל יִתֶּן־קָ֑רַח וְרֹ֖חַב מַ֣יִם בְּמוּצָֽק׃

*Word for word:* from the.breath of.God it.gives ice and.\[the\] breadth of.\[the\].waters \[is\].(in) constraint

*JPS 1917:* By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7341.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7341/): 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).