rachav · make room, enlarge

What it means

rachav (רָחַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “make room, enlarge”.

Make wide, give ample room; enlarge.

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. To open up space, give room.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• wide ×8
• enlarge ×4
• enlarges ×3
• You widen ×2
• broad ×1
• has made room ×1
• has widened ×1
• it became wider ×1
• makes room for him ×1
• widens ×1
• others ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×7
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 26:22

  He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called its name Rehoboth, and said, “For now YHWH has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

• Exodus 34:24

  For I will dispossess nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no man shall covet your land when you go up to appear before YHWH your Elohim three times in the year.

• Deuteronomy 12:20

  When YHWH your Elohim enlarges your territory as he has spoken to you, and you say, “I will eat meat,” because your soul craves to eat meat, you may eat meat with all the desire of your soul.

• Deuteronomy 19:8

  And if YHWH your Elohim enlarges your territory, as he swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers,

• Deuteronomy 33:20

  And of Gad he said, “Blessed be he who enlarges Gad. Like a lioness he dwells, and he tears the arm and also the crown of the head.

• 1 Samuel 2:1

  And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in YHWH; my horn is lifted high in YHWH. My mouth opens wide over my enemies, for I rejoice in your salvation.

• 2 Samuel 22:37

  You widen my step beneath me, and my ankles do not slip.

• Psalms 4:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David. When I call, answer me, Elohim of my righteousness. In distress you gave me room; show me favor and hear my prayer.

• Psalms 18:36

  You widen my step beneath me, and my ankles do not slip.

• Psalms 25:17

  The distresses of my heart have grown wide; from my straits bring me out.

• Psalms 35:21

  And they opened wide against me their mouth; they said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it.”

• Psalms 81:10

  I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you up from the land of Egypt; open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

• Psalms 119:32

  In the way of your commandments I will run, for you enlarge my heart.

• Proverbs 18:16

  A man’s gift makes room for him, and before the great it leads him.

• Isaiah 5:14

  Therefore Sheol has widened its throat and opened its mouth without limit; and down go her majesty and her multitude and her uproar and whoever exults in her.

• Isaiah 30:23

  And he will give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful; your herds will graze on that day in a broad pasture.

• Isaiah 30:33

  For Topheth has been prepared from long ago; it too for the king is made ready; he has made deep and wide its pyre, fire and wood in abundance; the breath of YHWH, like a torrent of sulfur, kindles it.

• Isaiah 54:2

  “Enlarge the place of your tent, and the curtains of your dwellings let them stretch out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords, and your stakes strengthen.

• Isaiah 57:4

  Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open wide the mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood,

• Isaiah 57:8

  And behind the door and the doorpost you have set your memorial; for away from me you uncovered yourself, and went up, you widened your bed; and you made a covenant for yourself with them; you loved their bed; their hand you gazed on.

• Isaiah 60:5

  Then you will see and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and grow wide, for the multitude of the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.

• Ezekiel 41:7

  And it became wider and wound around higher and higher for the side chambers, for the encircling of the house went higher and higher all around the house; therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so the lowest story went up to the highest by the middle one.

• Amos 1:13

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, in order to enlarge their territory.

• Micah 1:16

  Shave yourself bald and shear yourself for the children of your delight; make wide your baldness like the eagle, for they have gone into exile from you.

• Habakkuk 2:5

  And moreover, wine betrays; the arrogant man does not remain, who widens his throat like Sheol, and he is like death and is not satisfied, and he gathers to himself all the nations and assembles to himself all the peoples.