yerecha · far end, recess

What it means

yerecha (יְרֵכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “far end, recess”.

The farthest or deepest part: the back of a house or a cave, the ends of the earth, the edge of a territory.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The deepest or most remote corner of a place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• rear ×7
• far reaches ×5
• farthest parts ×3
• innermost parts ×3
• remote parts ×2
• remotest parts ×2
• border ×1
• deepest parts ×1
• depths ×1
• far end ×1
• others ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×6
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×5
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1

• Genesis 49:13

  Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; he will be a shore for ships, and his border will be toward Sidon.

• Exodus 26:22

  For the rear of the dwelling, westward, you shall make six boards.

• Exodus 26:23

  And two boards you shall make for the corners of the dwelling at the rear.

• Exodus 26:27

  and five bars for the boards of the second side of the dwelling, and five bars for the boards of the side of the dwelling at the rear, westward.

• Exodus 36:27

  And for the rear of the dwelling westward he made six boards.

• Exodus 36:28

  And two boards he made for the corners of the dwelling at the rear.

• Exodus 36:32

  and five bars for the boards of the second side of the dwelling, and five bars for the boards of the dwelling at the rear westward.

• Judges 19:1

  And it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a man, a Levite, residing as an alien in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, and he took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem of Judah.

• Judges 19:18

  And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem of Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim; from there I am. I went to Bethlehem of Judah, and I am going to the house of YHWH, and there is no one taking me into the house.

• 1 Samuel 24:3

  He came to the sheepfolds by the road, and there was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.

• 1 Kings 6:16

  And he built the twenty cubits at the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls; and he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.

• 2 Kings 19:23

  Through your messengers you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter its farthest lodging, the forest of its orchard.

• Psalms 48:2

  Beautiful in its height, the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, the far reaches of the north, the city of the great king.

• Psalms 128:3

  Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner parts of your house; your children like shoots of olive trees around your table.

• Isaiah 14:13

  And you said in your heart, ‘To the heavens I will ascend; above the stars of El I will raise my throne, and I will sit on the mount of meeting, in the far reaches of the north;

• Isaiah 14:15

  But to Sheol you will be brought down, to the depths of the pit.

• Isaiah 37:24

  Through your servants you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter the height of its farthest end, the forest of its orchard.

• Jeremiah 6:22

  Thus says YHWH: “Look, a people is coming from the land of the north, and a great nation is stirred up from the far reaches of the earth.

• Jeremiah 25:32

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “Look, evil is going out from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirred up from the far reaches of the earth.”

• Jeremiah 31:8

  Look, I am bringing them from the land of the north, and I will gather them from the far ends of the earth; among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and the one giving birth together; a great assembly will return here.

• Jeremiah 50:41

  Look, a people is coming from the north, and a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the far reaches of the earth.

• Ezekiel 32:23

  whose graves were put in the deepest parts of the pit, and her assembly is around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who put terror in the land of the living.

• Ezekiel 38:6

  Gomer and all its troops, Beth-togarmah from the farthest parts of the north, and all its troops, many peoples with you.

• Ezekiel 38:15

  And you will come from your place, from the farthest parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, riding horses, all of them, a great assembly, and a numerous army.

• Ezekiel 39:2

  And I will turn you around and lead you on, and I will bring you up from the farthest parts of the north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

• Ezekiel 46:19

  And he brought me through the entry that was at the side of the gate to the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and look, there was a place at the far end toward the sea.

• Amos 6:10

  And his relative and the one who burns him will pick him up to bring out the bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still anyone with you?” And he will say, “No one.” And he will say, “Hush! For we must not mention the name of YHWH.”

• Jonah 1:5

  And the sailors were afraid, and they cried out, each to his god, and they hurled the objects that were in the ship into the sea to lighten the load for themselves. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the vessel and had lain down and was sound asleep.