merchak · distance, far place

What it means

merchak (מֶרְחָק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “distance, far place”.

Distance, a far place; "from afar".

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. A remote, distant place: a "far land".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• far away ×10
• afar ×3
• distant ×2
• far distances ×1
• far places ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Psalms 138:6

  For YHWH is high, yet the lowly he sees, but the haughty from afar he knows.

• Proverbs 25:25

  Cold water to a weary soul, and good news from a land far away.

• Proverbs 31:14

  She is like the ships of the merchant; from far away she brings her bread.

• Isaiah 8:9

  Raise an uproar, peoples, and be shattered; and listen, all distant places of the earth: gird yourselves, and be shattered; gird yourselves, and be shattered.

• Isaiah 10:3

  And what will you do on the day of visitation, and in the storm that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

• Isaiah 13:5

  They come from a land far away, from the end of the heavens, YHWH and the instruments of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

• Isaiah 17:13

  The nations, like the uproar of many waters, resound; but he rebukes it, and it flees far away, and is chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling dust before the storm wind.

• Isaiah 30:27

  Look, the name of YHWH comes from afar, his anger burning, and heavy the rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a fire that devours,

• Isaiah 33:17

  A king in his beauty your eyes will gaze on; they will see a land of far distances.

• Isaiah 46:11

  calling from the east a bird of prey, from a distant land the man of my counsel; also I have spoken, also I will bring it about; I have formed it, also I will do it.

• Jeremiah 4:16

  Remind the nations, look, proclaim against Jerusalem: “Besiegers are coming from a land far away, and they raise their voice against the cities of Judah.

• Jeremiah 5:15

  Look, I am bringing against you a nation from far away, house of Israel, declares YHWH; it is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, and you will not understand what they say.

• Jeremiah 6:20

  What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or the good cane from a land far away? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

• Jeremiah 8:19

  Listen! The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is YHWH not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images, with foreign vapors?”

• Jeremiah 31:10

  Hear the word of YHWH, nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away, and say: ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and he will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

• Ezekiel 23:40

  And even they sent for men coming from far away, to whom a messenger was sent; and look, they came, for whom you bathed, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments,

• Zechariah 10:9

  And I will sow them among the peoples, and in the far places they will remember me; and they will live with their children, and return.