רָחֵק
remote
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H7369 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Psalms 1 verse
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רחק (râchêq) is a Hebrew adjective most often rendered “remote.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Psalms, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Psalms 73:27. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7369 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.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Lo they that are far 1×
- American Standard Version: For 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Far 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Are far from you 1×
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American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7369 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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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.
- 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.
רָחַק
- (b. h.) to be distant, far, removed. Y’lamd. to Num. X, 29, quot. in Ar. (ref. to Ps. LXXIII, 27) מי שרוֹחֵק הק"בה וכ׳ (ed. Koh. שׁמִתְרַחֵק) he who keeps away from the Lord, so as not to repent. Sifré Num. 131 כרְחוֹק מזרח וכ׳ as far as the east is removed from the west; a. e. e.g. Psalms 73:27
- to remove; to alienate; to reject, expel; to loathe. B. Kam. 24ᵃ top, a. e. ר׳ נגיחותיו if the ox did his gorings in intervals (of three days), opp. קירב. Ib. רִיחֲקָה ראיותיה, v. רְאִיָּה. Yalk. Ps. 809 (ref. to Ps. l. c.) זה … שׁרִחֲקוּ את הקץ this alludes to Balaam and his associates, who put far off the end (the day of judgment, Num. XXIV, 17), opp. קרבו. Ber. 60ᵇ ורַחֲקֵנִי מאדם רע וכ׳ keep me far from a bad man and a bad associate. Eduy. V, 7 מעשיך יקרבוך ומעשיך יְרַחֲקוּךָ thy own doings will bring thee near (win thee friends), and thy own doings will alienate thee. Ib. VIII, 7 לרַחֵק, v. קָרֵב; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְרוּחָק; pl. מְרוּחָקִים, מְרוּחָקִין. Ib. המר׳ בזרוע, v. קָרֵב. Ber. 63ᵇ שלא היה מר׳ וכ׳ which was only twelve miles off. e.g. Numbers 24:17
- same. Sifré Num. 94 מַרְחִיקִים, v. קָרֵב. B. Bath. II, 5 מַרְחִיקִין את הסולם וכ׳ (neighbors) must keep a ladder removed from the (neighbor’s) dove-cote four cubits. Ib. 4 אלא אם כן ה׳ ממנו וכ׳ unless he places (the wall) at a distance of four cubits. Ib. 18ᵇ על המזיק להַרְחִיק את עצמו it is the duty of him who causes the damage to remove himself; (oth. opin.) על הניזק להרחיק וכ׳ he who is injured must remove himself. Ber. I, 1 כדי להרחיק וכ׳ in order to keep men away (prevent them) from sin. Snh. 103ᵇ שהִרְחִיקָה וכ׳, v. לְגִימָה. Ib. מַרְחֶקֶת וכ׳ estranges those who are near (related) &c.; a. fr.—2) to keep aloof, stay away. Ab. I, 7 הַרְחֵק משכן רע keep aloof from a bad neighbor; a. e.—[Y. Ber. I, 2ᵈ bot. והרחיק על פתחו וכ׳, read: והִרְתִּיק, v. רָתַק.]
- to remove one’s self; to become a stranger. Yeb. 109ᵃ לעולם ידבק … ויִתְרַחֵק וכ׳ man should always cling to three things, and keep aloof from three things. Snh. III, 4 קרוב ונ׳, v. קָרוֹב. Ber. 34ᵇ (ref. to Is. LVII, 19) שהיה קרוב … ונ׳ וכ׳ who came near committing a sin, and withdrew himself from it. Y’lamd. l. c., v. supra; a. e. e.g. Isaiah 57:19
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.
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