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רָחוֹק

rachok · far, distant

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7350 · appears 85 times in the Bible

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What it means

rachok (רָחוֹק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “far, distant”.

Remote, in place or in time; often "from afar".

How to say it

ra·chok

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 be far, at a great distance from a place or someone.
  2. Far off in time: what lies far ahead, what has not yet come.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Far, distant: what is at a distance in space or in time. It comes from רָחַק, “be far away”. BDB: remote, of place or time.

Historical and cultural background

The Gibeonites deceive Joshua by pretending to come “From a land far away” (Joshua 9:6), because the law treated differently the cities “that are very far from you” (Deuteronomy 20:15).

How we translate it

“Far” 33 times, “afar” 20, “far away” 15, “distant” 9, “distance” 5 (“at a distance”, Exodus 2:4). It is the opposite of קָרוֹב, “near” (H7138), and they often go together (Isaiah 57:19).

How it is translated

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

  • far ×33
  • afar ×20
  • far away ×15
  • distant ×9
  • distance ×5
  • long time to come ×2
  • long ago ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 22:4

    On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

  • Genesis 37:18

    They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them, they plotted against him to kill him.

  • Exodus 2:4

    His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would be done to him.

  • Exodus 20:18

    All the people were seeing the thunders and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood far off.

  • Exodus 20:21

    The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the dense cloud where Elohim was.

  • Exodus 24:1

    To Moses he said, “Come up to YHWH, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and bow down from a distance.

  • Numbers 9:10

    “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean through a corpse, or on a distant journey, he shall still keep the Passover to YHWH.

  • Deuteronomy 13:7

    some of the gods of the peoples that are around you, whether near to you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth,

  • Deuteronomy 20:15

    Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, that are not of the cities of these nations here.

  • Deuteronomy 28:49

    YHWH will raise against you a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops, a nation whose language you will not understand,

  • Deuteronomy 29:22

    And the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will say, when they see the blows of that land and its sicknesses with which YHWH has made it sick

  • Deuteronomy 30:11

    For this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, nor is it far away.

  • Joshua 3:4

    But there shall be a distance between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way by which you are to go, for you have not passed this way before.”

  • Joshua 9:6

    They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “From a land far away we have come; now make a covenant with us.”

  • Joshua 9:9

    They said to him, “From a land very far away your servants have come because of the name of YHWH your Elohim; for we have heard of his fame and all that he did in Egypt,

  • Joshua 9:22

    Joshua called them and spoke to them, saying, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?

  • Judges 18:7

    So the five men went and came to Laish, and they saw the people who were in it, living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, at rest and secure; and there was no one in the land putting them to shame in anything, no one possessing authority; and they were far from the Sidonians, and they had no dealings with anyone.

  • Judges 18:28

    And there was no deliverer, for it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. And they built the city and lived in it.

  • 1 Samuel 26:13

    David crossed over to the other side and stood on the top of the mountain far off, with a great distance between them.

  • 2 Samuel 7:19

    And this was still small in your eyes, Adonai YHWH; and you have spoken also of the house of your servant for a long time to come; and this is the manner of humankind, Adonai YHWH!

  • 1 Kings 8:41

    And also to the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, and comes from a distant land because of your name

  • 1 Kings 8:46

    When they sin against you — for there is no human being who does not sin — and you are angry with them and give them over before the enemy, and their captors carry them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;

  • 2 Kings 2:7

    Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance, while the two of them stood by the Jordan.

  • 2 Kings 19:25

    Have you not heard? From afar I made it, from days of old I formed it; now I have brought it about, and it has been for reducing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

  • 2 Kings 20:14

    Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where do they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “From a distant land they have come, from Babylon.”

  • 1 Chronicles 17:17

    And this was small in your eyes, Elohim; and you have spoken of the house of your servant for a long time to come; and you have regarded me according to the rank of a man of high degree, YHWH Elohim.

  • 2 Chronicles 6:32

    And also to the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, but he comes from a distant land for the sake of your great name, your strong hand, and your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house,

  • 2 Chronicles 6:36

    When they sin against you —for there is no human being who does not sin— and you are angry with them and give them over before an enemy, and their captors carry them captive to a land far or near,

  • 2 Chronicles 26:15

    He made in Jerusalem devices, the invention of an inventor, to be on the towers and on the corners, to shoot arrows and large stones. And his name went out far, for he was marvelously helped until he was strong.

  • Ezra 3:13

    And the people did not distinguish the sound of the shout of joy from the sound of the weeping of the people, for the people were shouting with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.

  • Nehemiah 4:19

    And I said to the nobles, to the officials, and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and extensive, and we are separated on the wall, far each from his brother.

  • Nehemiah 12:43

    And they sacrificed on that day great sacrifices, and rejoiced, for Elohim had made them rejoice with great rejoicing; and also the women and the children rejoiced. And the rejoicing of Jerusalem was heard from afar.

  • Esther 9:20

    And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, those near and those far,

  • Job 2:12

    They lifted up their eyes from a distance and did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept; each tore his robe, and they scattered dust over their heads toward the heavens.

  • Job 36:3

    I will bring my knowledge from afar, and to my Maker I will ascribe righteousness.

  • Job 36:25

    Every human being has gazed on it; the mortal looks at it from afar.

  • Job 39:25

    At every horn he says, ‘Aha!’ and from afar he smells the war, the thunder of the commanders and the acclamation.

  • Job 39:29

    From there it searches out food; from afar its eyes look.

  • Psalms 10:1

    Why, YHWH, do you stand far off, why do you hide yourself in times of distress?

  • Psalms 22:1

    For the director. On The Doe of the Dawn. A psalm of David. My El, my El, why have you abandoned me? Far from my salvation are the words of my roaring.

And 45 more times.