רָחָב
rachav · Rahab
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7343 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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rachav (רָחָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Rahab”.
A woman of Jericho who hid the spies of Israel. Her name means "wide, spacious."
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ra·chav
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.
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Where it appears
- Joshua 2:1
Then Joshua son of Nun sent from Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, “Go, see the land and Jericho.” So they went and came to the house of a woman, a prostitute, whose name was Rahab, and they lay down there.
- Joshua 2:3
Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who came to you, who entered your house, for to search out all the land they have come.”
- Joshua 6:17
The city shall be a thing devoted to destruction, it and all that is in it, to YHWH. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
- Joshua 6:23
So the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had; and all her families they brought out, and they left them outside the camp of Israel.
- Joshua 6:25
But Rahab the prostitute and the house of her father and all that she had, Joshua kept alive; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.