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רְחִיק

distant

H7352 Strong's Hebrew
rachîyq Transliteration
/rakh-eek'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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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.

רחיק (rachîyq) is a Hebrew adjective most often rendered “distant.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Ezra dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Ezra 6:6. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
far
Modern gloss
distant
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H7352 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Ezra 6:6
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Ezra 6:6.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%

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: Far 1×
  • American Standard Version: Far 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Away 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Far away 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H7352 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Far” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H7352 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Far” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H7352 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Away” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H7352 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Far away” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. far, far off, distant

Word origin

[ רְחִיק ] adj. far;—pl. abs. Ezr 6:6

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from רחוק (râchôwq) (H7350) — far.

Part of speech: Adjective TWOT: 2994


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.

רְחֵיק

  • , v. רְחַק

רָחִיק I

  • (preced.) distance. Targ. Ex. II, 4. Targ. Ps. X, 1. Targ. Prov. XXXI, 14 (Ms. רוֹחַק); a. fr.

רָחִיק II

  • (preced.) far, distant, removed. Targ. Deut. XXIX, 21. Targ. Jer. XII, 2. Targ. Prov. XXV, 25; a. fr.—Succ. 52ᵃ; Yalk. Joel 535, v. צַוְותָּא. Y. Shebi. IX, 38ᵈ bot. לארעא דר׳ to a distant land; a. e.—Pl. רְחִיקִין; רְחִיקָן. Targ. Josh. IX, 22. Targ. Jud. XVIII, 7; a. fr.—Y. Ned. XI, end, 42ᵈ (expl. שמים ביני לבינך Mish. Ned. XI, 12) [read:] כמא דשמיא ר׳ … כן האי אתתא רחיקא וכ׳ as the heavens are remote from the earth, so is this woman (I) from this man (I cannot live with him); a. e.

רִחֵק

  • Targ. Prov. XIX, 7. Targ. Ps. CIII, 12. Ib. LIII, 2. Targ. Job XXI, 16; a. fr.
    • 1. to remove; to reject, loathe. Targ. Ps. CIII, 12. Targ. Ex. XXXIII, 7. Targ. Is. VI, 12. Targ. Job XXXIII, 20 (Ms. Pa.); a. fr.
    • 2. to be removed. Gitt. 58ᵃ כמה מַרְחִיקְנָא וכ׳ how far am I (in my studies) from that place (the passage quoted)?
    • to remove, keep off; to loathe, abominate; to make abominable. Targ. Job XI, 14. Targ. Am. VI, 3 מר׳ יום (ed. Lag. מיום, corr. acc.; h. text מנדים). Targ. Jer. II, 37 (h. text מאס). Targ. Deut. VII, 26 (h. text תעב). Targ. Job IX, 31; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְרָחַק. Targ. Mal. I, 7 (h. text מגאל).—Sabb. 128ᵇ טמאה לא מְרַחֲקָא וולדא ואי מרחקא וכ׳ an unclean animal (after giving birth) does not keep its young off, and if it does, it does not allow them to come near again (stimulation of the maternal instinct does not avail, v. רָחַם). Snh. 29ᵃ משום דמְרָחֲקָא דעתיה (an enemy cannot be witness,) because his mind is estranged (hostile), opp. מקרבא; Yalk. Num. 788; a. e.—V. מְרָחַק, מְרַחַקְתָּא.

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.


Septuagint verse parallels

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