H7342 - רָחָב (râchâb)

H7342 רָחָב (râchâb) raw-khawb'

Hebrew

Adjective (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

Broad

Biblical Persons & Places

Broad_Wall Broad Wall= near Jerusalem (Jerusalem@Gen.14.18-Rev=H3389)

A location near Jerusalem first mentioned at Neh.3.8; only referred to as Broad Wall (רָחָב חוֹמָה).

Strong's Definition

roomy, in any (or every) direction, literally or figuratively

Derivation: from H7337 (רָחַב);

KJV Usage: broad, large, at liberty, proud, wide.

TWOT Reference: 2143c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) broad, wide

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G4116 G4460

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

§ broad, wide

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

רָחָב râchâb BDB Definition: 1) broad, wide Part of Speech: adjective A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H7337 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2143c Total KJV Occurrences: 21

Bible Occurrences (21)

34:21

3:8

18:10

4:40

3:8 4:19 7:4 9:35 12:38

11:9 30:14

101:5 104:25 119:45 119:96

21:4 28:25

22:18 33:21

51:58

23:32

Genesis 34:21

These men are at peace... with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, [it] is large... enough for them. Let us take... their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious... land, a land flowing with milk and honey—... the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Judges 18:10

When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious... land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing......... on earth is lacking.

1 Chronicles 4:40

There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious..., peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.

Nehemiah 3:8

Next to them, Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs. And next to him, Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs. They fortified Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

Nehemiah 4:19

Then I said to the nobles,... the officials,... and the rest of the people: The work [is] great and extensive, and we are spread out far from one another along the wall.

Nehemiah 7:4

Now the city was large and spacious..., but there were few people in it and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.

Nehemiah 9:35

For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You... or turn from their wicked ways.