Rachav רָחָב

Rachav (Hebrew רָחָב, Strong's H7342) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “broad: wide”. It occurs 21 times in 21 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H7342H: broad: wide

H7342G: Broad

H7342I: broad: arrogant

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Rachav, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 34:21
  These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.“These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.

Exodus

• Exodus 3:8
  And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Judges

• Judges 18:10
  When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 4:40
  And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 3:8
  Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.Next to them, Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs, and next to him, Hananiah son of the perfumer made repairs. They fortified Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.
• Nehemiah 4:19
  And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.Then I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people: “The work is great and extensive, and we are spread out far from one another along the wall.
• Nehemiah 7:4
  Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.
• Nehemiah 9:35
  For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.
• Nehemiah 12:38
  And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;The second thanksgiving choir proceeded to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,

Job

• Job 11:9
  The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
• Job 30:14
  They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

Psalms

• Psalm 101:5
  Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
• Psalm 104:25
  So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
• Psalm 119:45
  And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.
• Psalm 119:96
  I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 21:4
  An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.
• Proverbs 28:25
  He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.A greedy man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the LORD will prosper.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 22:18
  He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master.
• Isaiah 33:21
  But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 51:58
  Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 23:32
  Thus saith the Lord God; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).