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Range

מֶחְקָרStrong’s H4278

mechqar (mech-qar)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Mechqar is the Hebrew word usually translated “depths of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.”
Psalms 95:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. Range, space, field
How it's translated
  • depths of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    מֶחְקָר mechqar · range

    range, space, field

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    RANGE, verb transitive

    1. To set in a row or in rows; to place in a regular line, lines or ranks; to dispose in the proper order; as, to range troops in a body; to range men or ships in the order of battle.
    2. To dispose in proper classes, orders or divisions; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
    3. To dispose in a proper manner; to place in regular method; in a general sense. range and arrange are used indifferently in the same sense.
    4. To rove over; to pass over.
    All definitions and other forms of “range”
    1. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast, that is, along the coast.

    RANGE, verb intransitive

    1. To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction.“As a roaring lion and a ranging bear” Proverbs 28:15
    2. To be placed in order; to be ranked.
    3. To lie in a particular direction.
    4. To sail or pass near or in the direction of; as, to range along the coast.

    RANGE, noun

    [See Rank.]

    1. A row; a rank; things in a line; as a range of buildings; a range of mountains; ranges of colors.
    2. A class; an order.
    3. A wandering or roving; excursion.
    4. Space or room for excursion.
    5. Compass or extent of excursion; space taken in by any thing extended or ranked in order; as the range of Newton's thought.
    6. The step of a ladder. [Corrupted in popular language to rung.]
    7. A kitchen grate.
    8. A bolting sieve to sift meal.
    9. In gunnery, the path of a bullet or bomb, or the line it describes from the mouth of the piece to the point where it lodges; or the whole distance which it passes.

    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.