רָחָבrâchâb

wide, broad, spacious (Job 30:14; Proverbs 21:4; Exodus 3:8; Genesis 34:21; Isaiah 33:21)

Pronunciation: raw-khawb' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7342

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 21 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 34:21 “These men are our friends,” they said. “Let’s invite them to live here among us and trade freely. Look, the land is large enough to hold them. We can take their daughters as wives and let them marry ours.
  • Exodus 3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
  • Judges 18:10 When you get there, you will find the people living carefree lives. God has given us a spacious and fertile land, lacking in nothing!”
  • 1 Chronicles 4:40 They found lush pastures there, and the land was spacious, quiet, and peaceful. Some of Ham’s descendants had been living in that region.
  • Nehemiah 3:8 Next was Uzziel son of Harhaiah, a goldsmith by trade, who also worked on the wall. Beyond him was Hananiah, a manufacturer of perfumes. They left out a section of Jerusalem as they built the Broad Wall.
  • Nehemiah 4:19 Then I explained to the nobles and officials and all the people, “The work is very spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).