Breadth
רַ֫חַבStrong’s H7338rachav (ra-chav)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rachav is the Hebrew word usually translated “broad place” and “broad spaces of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.”
Meaning
- Breadth, broad or wide expanse
How it's translated
- a broad place 1
- broad spaces of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רַ֫חַב rachav · breadth
breadth, broad or wide expanse
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “breadth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BREADTH, noun
bredth. The measure or extent of any plain surface from side to side; a geometrical dimension, which, multiplied into the length, constitutes a surface; as, the length of a table is five feet, and the breadth three; 5x3=15 feet, the whole surface.
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.