Space
רֶ֫וַחStrong’s H7305revach (re-vach)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Revach is the Hebrew word usually translated “space” and “relief”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.”
Meaning
- Spacespace, interval · respite, relief
How it's translated
- and a space 1
- relief 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Esther 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
רֶ֫וַח revach · space
1) space 1a) space, interval 1b) respite, relief
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “space” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPACE, noun
[Latin spatium, space; spatior, to wander. This word is probably formed on the root of pateo.]
- Room; extension. space in the abstract, is mere extension.
- Any quantity of extension.
- The distance or interval between lines; as in books.
- Quantity of time; also, the interval between two points of time.
All definitions and other forms of “space”
- A short time; a while.
SPACE, verb intransitive
To rove. [Not in use.]
SPACE, verb transitive
Among printers, to make space or wider intervals between lines.
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.