מֶרְחָב
merchav · broad place
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4800 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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merchav (מֶרְחָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “broad place”.
A spacious, wide, open place: the opposite of narrowness and distress. An image of freedom and relief.
How to say it
mer·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.
Its senses in the Bible
- Open space with room: an image of freedom and relief.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- broad place ×4
- breadth ×1
- wide place ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 22:20
He brought me out into a broad place; he set me free, because he delighted in me.
- Psalms 18:19
He brought me out into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
- Psalms 31:8
and you have not handed me over into the hand of the enemy; you have set in a broad place my feet.
- Psalms 118:5
Out of distress I called on Yah; Yah answered me in a wide place.
- Hosea 4:16
For like a stubborn heifer Israel has been stubborn; now will YHWH pasture them like a lamb in a broad place?
- Habakkuk 1:6
For look, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which marches through the breadth of the earth to possess dwellings not its own.