רָחֹק
far
also: remote, distant, distant lands, distant ones fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H7350 appears in the Book of Ecclesiastes — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ecclesiastes
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“far” is the headline sense of the Hebrew word רחוק (râchôwq). Its English rendering has broadened — “afar off” classically, “afar” (Berean Standard Bible) and “distant” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 85 verses — moderately common. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 22:4. Beyond “far” it also covers “remote”, “distant”, and “distant lands” — see its full sense range. See the sense tree, 85-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7350 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 85
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 85 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #481
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 85 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 85 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 46 verses · 54%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 27 verses · 32%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Afar off 22×, Far 20×, Far off 5×
- American Standard Version: Afar off 22×, Far 17×, Far off 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Afar 13×, Far 12×, Distance 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Distant 13×, Far away 13×, Afar 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7350 across 84 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7350 across 84 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7350 across 84 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7350 across 85 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. adj.
- a. of space: distant, land Jos 9:6, 9 (+ מְאֹד), Dt 29:21; 1 K 8:41, 46 = 2 Ch 6:32, 36; 2 K 20:14 = Is 39:3, אִיִּים ר׳ Is 66:19 + perhaps ψ 65:6 (Che We read אִיִּם for יָם; Weir in Che גּוֹיִם; MT makes ר׳ = distant ones, people); c. מִן pers., of peoples Jos 9:22 (JE), Ju 18:7, persons Ez 22:5; Ne 4:13; Pr 15:29 (י׳, fig.), cf. Je 12:2 (id.), cities Dt 20:15, so (מִן loc.) Ju 18:28; abs. of people Jo 4:8, persons Is 33:13; 57:19; Je 25:26; Ez 6:12; Zc 6:15; Pr 27:10; Dn 9:7 Est 9:20, cities Je 48:24, tress ψ 56:1 (title; v. יוֹנָה ad fin., p. 401), of distant journey Nu 9:10 (P); fig., רָחוֹק pred. (indef.) Ec 7:24, of י׳’s מִצְוָה Dt 30:11; c. מִן pers. (i.e. absent from, lacking to), of salvation ψ 119:155, wisdom Ec 7:23; of pers. c. מִן of act or quality Is 46:12 ψ 22:2; of price, c. מִן comp. = far beyond Pr 31:10. e.g. Joshua 9:6
- b. of time: לְעִתִּים רְחוֹקוֹת Ez 12:27. e.g. Ezekiel 12:27
- 2. n.m. always sing.:
- a. of space: distance Jos 3:4 (D); elsewhere c. prep.: (1) מֵר׳ from a distance, c. verbs implying motion, physical or mental: look Gn 22:4 (E) 37:18 (J) Jb 2:12; 36:25; bring Dt 28:49; Is 43:6; 60:9, cf. Je 46:27; come Is 49:12; 60:4 Hb 1:8; hear Is 49:1; smell Jb 39:25; remember Je 51:50; understand ψ 139:2; 139:2 transfer to b. also worship Ex 24:1 (J); (2) מֵר׳ at a distance (מִן 1 c) Ex 2:4 (E), 20:18, 21 (E, Gi v 15, 18), 1 S 26:13; 2 K 2:7; Is 5:26; 59:14; Je 31:3 ψ 38:12, cf. אֱלֹהֵי מֵר׳ Je 23:23 a God afar off (on cstr. cf. Ges§ 130a; אלהים ר׳ Gie, cf. 𝔊); (3) מֵר׳ to a distance (מִן 1 c) Is 22:3; 23:7 Pr 7:19; (4) בְּר׳ at a distance ψ 10:1; עַד־ר׳ to a distance Mi 4:3; also c. two prepp.: (5) לְמֵר׳ from (מִן 9 b), Jb 36:3; 39:29; (6) עַד־מֵר׳ (iii. עַד I. 1 a) to a distance Is 57:9 + Ne 12:43 van d. H. (עַד om. Baer Gi); even (7) עַד־לְמֵר׳ (עַד III.) 2 Ch 26:15; Ezr 3:13. e.g. Joshua 3:4
- b. of time, מֵר׳ long ago Is 22:11, c. noun = ancient, of long standing 25:1; לְמֵר׳ long ago 2 K 19:25 = Is 37:26; from a far 2 S 7:19 = 1 Ch 17:17. e.g. Isaiah 22:11
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adj. distant, far, et n.m. Jos 3:4 distance (LagBN 31);—abs. רָחֹק Ex 2:4 +, רָחוֹק Ez 6:12 +; fs. רְחֹקָה Dt 30:11 +, רְחוֹקָה Jos 6:9 +; mpl. רְחֹקִים Dt 13:8 +, etc., fpl. abs. רְחֹקוֹת Je 48:24 +, etc.;—often opp. קָרוֹב:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רחק (râchaq) (H7368) — to be far.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
רִחוּק
- , v. רִיחוּק, רִיחוֹק.
רָחוֹק
- distant, removed. Snh. VI, 2 היה ר׳ מבית וכ׳ when the culprit arrived at a distance of about ten cubits from the place of execution. Ib. 3. Pes. IX, 1 מי … או בדרך ר׳ he who (on the fourteenth day of Nisan) was unclean or on a distant journey (Num. IX, 10). Ib. 2 לפיכך … מפני שרחוקה ודאי וכ׳ (Bab. ed. 93ᵇ רחוק) therefore is the Hé (of רחוקה, Num. l. c.) dotted, not that it necessarily be distant (that he be really far away), but that he be outside of the Temple court (and unable to enter in time); Y. ib. 36ᵈ ה"א … איש ר׳ ואין דרך ר׳ the Hé is dotted to intimate that the man is at a distance (רחוק), not that the way be far; a. fr.—שמועה ר׳, v. שְׁמוּעָה.—Pl. רְחוֹקִים, רְחוֹקִין; רְחוֹקוֹת. Sabb. 182ᵃ קרובים נעשו ר׳; Lev. R. s. 18, v. קָרוֹב. Sifré Num. 131, v. סָמַךְ; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 9:10
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 59 distinct written forms H7350 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֵ/רָחֽוֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 36:25 | 4 |
| מֵ/רָח֣וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Habakkuk 1:8 | 3 |
| מֵ/רָחֹ֑ק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 2:4 | 3 |
| מֵ/רָחֹֽק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 24:1 | 3 |
| מֵֽ/רָח֔וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 60:9 | 3 |
| מֵֽ/רָח֖וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 22:11 | 3 |
| רְחוֹקָ֖ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 8:41 | 3 |
| רָח֣וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 3:4 | 3 |
| לְ/מֵ/רָח֑וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 17:17 | 2 |
| לְ/מֵֽ/רָחוֹק֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 19:25 | 2 |
| מֵ/רָח֑וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 2:7 | 2 |
| מֵ/רָח֔וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 5:26 | 2 |
| מֵ/רָח֖וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 22:3 | 2 |
| מֵ/רָחוֹק֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 28:49 | 2 |
| רְחוֹקִ֖ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 33:13 | 2 |
| רְחוֹקָ֛ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 20:14 | 2 |
| רָח֑וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joel 3:8 | 2 |
| בְּ/רָח֑וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 10:1 | 1 |
| הָ/רְחֹק֖וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 48:24 | 1 |
| הָ/רְחֹקִ֗ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 66:19 | 1 |
| הָ/רְחֹקִ֣ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 13:7 | 1 |
| הָ/רְחֹקֹ֥ת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 20:15 | 1 |
| הָ/רְחוֹקִ֖ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 46:12 | 1 |
| הָ/רָח֞וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 6:12 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/רְחֹק֥וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 22:5 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/רְחֹקִ֗ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 9:7 | 1 |
| וְ/הָ/רְחוֹקִֽים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Esther 9:20 | 1 |
| וְ/הָֽ/רְחֹקִים֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 25:26 | 1 |
| וְ/רָח֖וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 12:2 | 1 |
| וְ/רָחֹ֖ק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 31:10 | 1 |
| וּ/רְחֹקִ֥ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Judges 18:7 | 1 |
| וּ/רְחוֹקִ֣ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Zechariah 6:15 | 1 |
| וּֽ֭/מֵ/רָחוֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 39:25 | 1 |
| לְ/מֵ/רָחֽוֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 3:13 | 1 |
| לְ/מֵ֣/רָח֔וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 26:15 | 1 |
| לְ/מֵֽ/רָח֑וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 7:19 | 1 |
| לְ֝/מֵ/רָח֗וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 39:29 | 1 |
| לָ/רָח֧וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 57:19 | 1 |
| מֵ/רָח֕וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 31:3 | 1 |
| מֵ/רָחֹ֥ק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 38:11 | 1 |
| מֵ֣/רָחֹ֔ק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 57:9 | 1 |
| מֵֽ/רָחֹ֑ק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 26:13 | 1 |
| מֵֽ/רָחֹֽק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 20:18 | 1 |
| מֵֽ/רָחוֹק֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 51:50 | 1 |
| רְ֭חֹקִים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 56:1 | 1 |
| רְֽחוֹקָה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 18:28 | 1 |
| רְחֹקִֽים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 65:5 | 1 |
| רְחֹקָ֖ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 30:11 | 1 |
| רְחֹקָ֜הׄ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 9:10 | 1 |
| רְחוֹק֖וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 12:27 | 1 |
| רְחוֹקִ֨ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Joshua 9:22 | 1 |
| רְחוֹקָ֑ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 29:22 | 1 |
| רְחוֹקָ֗ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 6:32 | 1 |
| רְחוֹקָ֤ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 9:9 | 1 |
| רְחוֹקָ֥ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 7:23 | 1 |
| רְחוֹקָה֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 9:6 | 1 |
| רָח֖וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 7:24 | 1 |
| רָח֥וֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 22:1 | 1 |
| רָחֽוֹק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 27:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7350, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 77 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 85 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 22:4
- Exodus 2:4
- Numbers 9:10
- Deuteronomy 13:7
- Joshua 3:4
- Judges 18:7
- 1 Samuel 26:13
- 2 Samuel 7:19
- 1 Kings 8:41
- 2 Kings 2:7
- 1 Chronicles 17:17
- 2 Chronicles 6:32
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
