rechov · square

What it means

rechov (רְחֹב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “square”.

The open space of a town.

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. The open space of a town, or a wide street.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• square ×21
• squares ×21
• plaza ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×4
• Esther×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×5
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×5
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×1
• Amos×1
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 19:2

  He said, “Look now, my lords, please turn aside to the house of your servant, spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise early and go on your way.” They said, “No, we will spend the night in the square.”

• Deuteronomy 13:16

  All its spoil you shall gather into the middle of its square, and you shall burn with fire the city and all its spoil as a whole offering to YHWH your Elohim, and it shall be a heap of ruins forever; it shall not be rebuilt again.

• Judges 19:15

  And they turned aside there to go in to spend the night in Gibeah; and he went in and sat down in the square of the city, but there was no one taking them into the house to spend the night.

• Judges 19:17

  And he lifted up his eyes and saw the man, the traveler, in the square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”

• Judges 19:20

  And the old man said, “Peace to you. Only let all your needs be on me; only do not spend the night in the square.”

• 2 Samuel 21:12

  David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the lords of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck Saul on Gilboa.

• 2 Chronicles 29:4

  He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them into the square of the east,

• 2 Chronicles 32:6

  He set commanders of war over the people, and gathered them to himself in the square of the gate of the city, and spoke to their heart, saying,

• Ezra 10:9

  And all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month. And all the people sat in the square of the house of Elohim, trembling because of the matter and because of the rains.

• Nehemiah 8:1

  And all the people gathered as one man into the square that is in front of the Water Gate, and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which YHWH had commanded Israel.

• Nehemiah 8:3

  And he read in it before the square that is in front of the Water Gate, from the light until the middle of the day, in front of the men and the women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were toward the book of the law.

• Nehemiah 8:16

  So the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each on his roof, and in their courtyards, and in the courts of the house of Elohim, and in the square of the Water Gate and in the square of the Ephraim Gate.

• Esther 4:6

  And Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the square of the city that was in front of the king’s gate.

• Esther 6:9

  and let the robe and the horse be given into the hand of a man from among the king’s officials, the nobles, and let them clothe the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them make him ride on the horse through the square of the city, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”

• Esther 6:11

  And Haman took the robe and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and made him ride through the square of the city, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”

• Job 29:7

  When I went out to the gate by the city, and in the square I set up my seat,

• Psalms 55:11

  Calamities are within it; and oppression and deceit do not depart from its square.

• Psalms 144:14

  our oxen heavily loaded; no breach and no going out, and no outcry in our squares.

• Proverbs 1:20

  Wisdom cries aloud in the street; in the squares she raises her voice.

• Proverbs 5:16

  Should your springs be scattered outside, streams of water in the squares?

• Proverbs 7:12

  now in the street, now in the squares, and beside every corner she lies in wait.

• Proverbs 22:13

  The sluggard says, “A lion is outside! In the middle of the squares I will be murdered!”

• Proverbs 26:13

  The sluggard says, “A fierce lion is in the road! A lion among the squares!”

• Song of Songs 3:2

  “I will rise now and go around the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves.” I sought him but did not find him.

• Isaiah 15:3

  In its streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares all of it wails, going down in weeping.

• Isaiah 59:14

  And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off; for truth has stumbled in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.

• Jeremiah 5:1

  Roam through the streets of Jerusalem, and look, please, and know, and search in its squares, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks faithfulness, and I will pardon her.

• Jeremiah 9:21

  For death has come up through our windows; it has entered our palaces, to cut off the child from the street, the young men from the squares.

• Jeremiah 48:38

  On all the rooftops of Moab and in its squares all of it is lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 49:26

  Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all the men of war will be silenced in that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot.

• Jeremiah 50:30

  Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all her men of war will be silenced in that day, declares YHWH.

• Lamentations 2:11

  My eyes are spent with tears; my insides are in turmoil; my liver is poured out on the ground because of the shattering of the daughter of my people, when child and nursing infant faint in the squares of the city.

• Lamentations 2:12

  To their mothers they say, “Where is grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the squares of the city, as their life is poured out into the bosom of their mothers.

• Lamentations 4:18

  They have hunted our steps so that we cannot walk in our squares; our end has drawn near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

• Ezekiel 16:24

  that you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty place in every square.

• Ezekiel 16:31

  When you built your mound at the head of every road and made your lofty place in every square, you were not like the prostitute, for you scoffed at the fee.

• Daniel 9:25

  So know and understand: from the going out of a word to restore and to build Jerusalem until an Anointed One, a Leader, there will be seven weeks; and for sixty and two weeks it will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in the distress of the times.

• Amos 5:16

  Therefore thus says YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, Adonai: In all the squares there will be lamenting, and in all the streets they will say, “Alas! Alas!” And they will call the farmer to mourning, and to lamenting those skilled in wailing.

• Nahum 2:4

  In the streets the chariots go mad, they jostle one another in the squares; their appearance is like torches, like lightning flashes they run.

• Zechariah 8:4

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Old men and old women will again sit in the squares of Jerusalem, each with his staff in his hand because of the great number of his days.

And 3 more times.