rochav · width

What it means

rochav (רֹחַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “width”.

Breadth.

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 measure from side to side of a thing, given in cubits.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Width, breadth: the measure from side to side. It comes from the verb רָחַב, “to be wide”. BDB: breadth, literally or figuratively.

• The width in the measurements of the ark, the dwelling and the temple Genesis 6:15Exodus 25:10Ezekiel 40:6
• Walking through the land “along its length and along its width” Genesis 13:17
• “Breadth of heart”: largeness of understanding 1 Kings 4:29

Historical and cultural background

The measurements are given in cubits: Noah's ark had “its width fifty cubits” (Genesis 6:15), and the ark of the covenant “a cubit and a half its width” (Exodus 25:10). Ezekiel 40–48 is full of this word, in the vision of the temple measured with a reed.

How we translate it

“Width” 81 times, “wide” 17, “breadth” 3. In measurements it is “its width”, beside “its length” and “its height”, as in the Hebrew (Genesis 6:15). In 1 Kings 4:29 the Hebrew phrase “breadth of heart” is kept.

How it is translated

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

• width ×81
• wide ×17
• breadth ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×22
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×11
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×55
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 6:15

  And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

• Genesis 13:17

  Get up, walk through the land along its length and along its width, for to you I will give it.”

• Exodus 25:10

  They shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 25:17

  You shall make a cover of expiation of pure gold: two cubits and a half its length and a cubit and a half its width.

• Exodus 25:23

  You shall make a table of acacia wood: two cubits its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 26:2

  The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for all the curtains.

• Exodus 26:8

  The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for the eleven curtains.

• Exodus 26:16

  Ten cubits shall be the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

• Exodus 27:1

  You shall make the altar of acacia wood: five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and three cubits its height.

• Exodus 27:12

  For the width of the courtyard on the west side there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their bases ten.

• Exodus 27:13

  The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be fifty cubits.

• Exodus 27:18

  The length of the courtyard shall be a hundred cubits, the width fifty all along, and the height five cubits, of fine twisted linen, and their bases of bronze.

• Exodus 28:16

  It shall be square and doubled, a span its length and a span its width.

• Exodus 30:2

  A cubit its length and a cubit its width; it shall be square, and two cubits its height; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

• Exodus 36:9

  The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width four cubits for each curtain; one measure for all the curtains.

• Exodus 36:15

  The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain; one measure for the eleven curtains.

• Exodus 36:21

  Ten cubits was the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

• Exodus 37:1

  And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 37:6

  And he made a cover of expiation of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its width.

• Exodus 37:10

  And he made the table of acacia wood; two cubits was its length, and a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 37:25

  And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood; a cubit was its length, and a cubit its width, square, and two cubits its height; of one piece with it were its horns.

• Exodus 38:1

  And he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood; five cubits was its length, and five cubits its width, square, and three cubits its height.

• Exodus 38:18

  And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

• Exodus 39:9

  It was square; doubled they made the breastpiece, a span its length and a span its width, doubled.

• Deuteronomy 3:11

  (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Look, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length and four cubits its width, by the cubit of a man.)

• 1 Kings 4:29

  And Elohim gave Solomon wisdom and understanding in very great measure, and breadth of heart like the sand that is on the shore of the sea.

• 1 Kings 6:2

  And the house that King Solomon built for YHWH — sixty cubits was its length, and twenty its width, and thirty cubits its height.

• 1 Kings 6:3

  And the portico in front of the temple of the house: twenty cubits was its length, along the width of the house; ten cubits was its width in front of the house.

• 1 Kings 6:6

  The lower annex was five cubits wide, and the middle one six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; for he had put offsets on the house all around on the outside, so as not to fasten into the walls of the house.

• 1 Kings 6:20

  And the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits its height; and he overlaid it with fine gold; and he overlaid an altar of cedar.

• 1 Kings 7:2

  And he built the house of the Forest of Lebanon: a hundred cubits its length, and fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of pillars of cedar, with beams of cedar on the pillars.

• 1 Kings 7:6

  And the portico of the Pillars he made: fifty cubits its length, and thirty cubits its width; and a portico in front of them, with pillars and a canopy in front of them.

• 1 Kings 7:27

  And he made the ten bases of bronze: four cubits was the length of the one base, and four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.

• 2 Chronicles 3:3

  These are the measures with which Solomon laid the foundations for building the house of Elohim: the length, in cubits of the old measure, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 3:4

  The portico that was at the front, along the length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it inside with pure gold.

• 2 Chronicles 3:8

  He made the house of the Most Holy Place: its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he covered it with good gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

• 2 Chronicles 4:1

  He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

• 2 Chronicles 6:13

  For Solomon had made a platform of bronze and set it in the middle of the enclosure, five cubits its length, five cubits its width, and three cubits its height; he stood on it, knelt on his knees in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward the heavens,

• Job 37:10

  By the breath of El ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is held in constraint.

• Isaiah 8:8

  and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through, it will reach up to the neck; and the spreading of its wings will be the fullness of the breadth of your land, Immanuel!”

And 61 more times.