רָחוֹקrâchôwq

distant, far, distance

Pronunciation: raw-khoke' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7350

Meanings

1.

a. distant, of space (Joshua 9:6; Joshua 9:9; Deuteronomy 29:21)

b. of time (Ezekiel 12:27)

2. always singular

a. distance, of space, elsewhere with preposition (Joshua 3:4; Genesis 24:4; Genesis 37:18)

b. of time (Isaiah 22:11; Isaiah 25:1; 2 Kings 19:25)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 84 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 22:4 On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
  • Genesis 37:18 When Joseph’s brothers saw him coming, they recognized him in the distance. As he approached, they made plans to kill him.
  • Exodus 2:4 The baby’s sister then stood at a distance, watching to see what would happen to him.
  • Exodus 20:18 When the people heard the thunder and the loud blast of the ram’s horn, and when they saw the flashes of lightning and the smoke billowing from the mountain, they stood at a distance, trembling with fear.
  • Exodus 20:21 As the people stood in the distance, Moses approached the dark cloud where God was.
  • Exodus 24:1 Then the Lord instructed Moses: “Come up here to me, and bring along Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders. All of you must worship from a distance.
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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).