rachav · broad, wide

What it means

rachav (רָחָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “broad, wide”.

Roomy. "Broad on both hands": spacious on every side.

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. With plenty of free room, of good extent.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• broad ×11
• wide ×7
• broader ×1
• extensive ×1
• spacious enough ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×5
• Job×2
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 34:21

  “These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for the land, look, is spacious enough for them. Their daughters we will take for ourselves as wives, and our daughters we will give to them.

• Exodus 3:8

  And I have come down to rescue them from the hand of Egypt and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Judges 18:10

  When you go, you will come to a secure people, and the land is broad, for Elohim has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of any thing that is in the land.”

• 1 Chronicles 4:40

  And they found rich and good pasture, and the land was broad, quiet, and peaceful, for those who lived there before were from Ham.

• Nehemiah 3:8

  Next to him Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the silversmiths, repaired; and next to him Hananiah, a son of the perfumers, repaired; and they left Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

• 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 7:4

  Now the city was wide in space and large, but the people were few within it, and there were no houses built.

• Nehemiah 9:35

  And they, in their kingdom, and in your abundant goodness that you gave them, and in the wide and fertile land that you set before them, did not serve you, nor turn from their evil deeds.

• Nehemiah 12:38

  And the second thanksgiving choir went in the opposite direction, and I went after it, and half of the people, on top of the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, as far as the Broad Wall,

• Job 11:9

  Longer than the earth is its measure, and broader than the sea.

• Job 30:14

  As through a wide breach they come; under the desolation they roll about.

• Psalms 101:5

  Whoever slanders in secret his neighbor, him I will destroy; whoever is high of eyes and wide of heart, him I will not endure.

• Psalms 104:25

  This is the sea, great and wide; there are moving things without number, animals small with great.

• Psalms 119:45

  And I will walk about in a broad place, for your precepts I have sought.

• Psalms 119:96

  Of all perfection I have seen an end; your commandment is exceedingly broad.

• Proverbs 21:4

  Haughty eyes and a broad heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

• Proverbs 28:25

  The broad of soul stirs up strife, but whoever trusts in YHWH will be enriched.

• Isaiah 22:18

  he will roll you up tightly in a roll, like a ball, into a land wide on every side; there you will die, and there will be the chariots of your glory, disgrace of the house of your master!

• Isaiah 33:21

  But there YHWH will be magnificent for us, a place of rivers, of canals broad on every side; no galley with oars will go on it, and no magnificent ship will pass over it.

• Jeremiah 51:58

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly razed, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and peoples labor for nothing, and nations for the fire, and they grow weary.

• Ezekiel 23:32

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: The cup of your sister you will drink, the deep and the wide; you will be for laughter and for derision; it holds much.