רָחַקrâchaq
be, or become, far, distant
Pronunciation: raw-khak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7368
Meanings
Qal: be far, distant (Isaiah 59:9; Lamentations 1:16; Deuteronomy 12:21)
Pi`el: send far away (Isaiah 6:12; Isaiah 29:13; Isaiah 26:15)
Hiph`il: construct (Job 19:13; Psalms 103:12; Ezekiel 11:16)
1. make, or exhibit, distance, be gone far, direct causation (Genesis 44:4; Joshua 8:4; Judges 18:22)
2. remove, put far away, indirect causation (Jeremiah 27:10; Joel 4:6; Job 19:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 57 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 21:16 Then she went and sat down by herself about a hundred yards away. “I don’t want to watch the boy die,” she said, as she burst into tears.
- Genesis 44:4 But when they had gone only a short distance and were barely out of the city, Joseph said to his palace manager, “Chase after them and stop them. When you catch up with them, ask them, ‘Why have you repaid my kindness with such evil?
- Exodus 8:28 “All right, go ahead,” Pharaoh replied. “I will let you go into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord your God. But don’t go too far away. Now hurry and pray for me.”
- Exodus 23:7 “Be sure never to charge anyone falsely with evil. Never sentence an innocent or blameless person to death, for I never declare a guilty person to be innocent.
- Exodus 33:7 It was Moses’ practice to take the Tent of Meeting and set it up some distance from the camp. Everyone who wanted to make a request of the Lord would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp.
- Deuteronomy 12:21 It might happen that the designated place of worship—the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to be honored—is a long way from your home. If so, you may butcher any of the cattle, sheep, or goats the Lord has given you, and you may freely eat the meat in your hometown, as I have commanded you.
See every passage
- Genesis 21:16, 44:4
- Exodus 8:28, 23:7, 33:7
- Deuteronomy 12:21, 14:24
- Joshua 3:16, 8:4
- Judges 18:22
- Job 5:4, 11:14, 13:21, 19:13, 21:16, 22:18, 22:23, 30:10
- Psalms 22:11, 22:19, 35:22, 38:21, 55:7, 71:12, 88:8, 88:18, 103:12, 109:17, 119:150
- Proverbs 4:24, 5:8, 19:7, 22:5, 22:15, 30:8
- Ecclesiastes 3:5
- Isaiah 6:12, 26:15, 29:13, 46:13, 49:19, 54:14, 59:9, 59:11
- Jeremiah 2:5, 27:10
- Lamentations 1:16
- Ezekiel 8:6, 11:15, 11:16, 43:9, 44:10
- Joel 2:20, 3:6
- Micah 7:11
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).