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To remove

זָחַחStrong’s H2118

zachach (za-chach)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Zachach is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will be displaced” and “it was displaced”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.”
Exodus 28:28 KJV
Meaning
  1. To remove, displace(Niphal) to be removed, be loosened, be displaced
How it's translated
  • it will be displaced 1
  • it was displaced 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

זָחַח zachach · to remove

1) to remove, displace 1a) (Niphal) to be removed, be loosened, be displaced

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “remove” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

REMOVE, verb transitive

[Latin removeo; re and moveo, to move.]

  1. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark” Deuteronomy 19:14
  2. To displace from an office.
  3. To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint.“REMOVE sorrow from thine heart” Ecclesiastes 11:10
  4. To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.
All definitions and other forms of “remove”
  1. To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.

REMOVE, verb intransitive

  1. To change place in any manner.
  2. To go from one place to another.
  3. To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.

REMOVE, noun

  1. Change of place.
  2. Translation of one to the place of another.
  3. State of being removed.
  4. Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
  5. Departure; a going away.
  6. The act of changing place; removal.
  7. A step in any scale of gradation.
  8. Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove
  9. The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.
  10. A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.
  11. Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.