Width
רֹ֫חַבStrong’s H7341rochav (ro-chav)
Appears in 89 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rochav is the Hebrew word usually translated “breadth its”, “breadth” and “breadth of”. It appears in 89 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.”
Meaning
- Breadth, width, expanse
How it's translated
- breadth its 24
- and breadth 23
- breadth 23
- breadth of 11
- and breadth of 10
- and breadth its 3
- and to breadth its 1
- in breadth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 47
- Exodus 22
- 1 Kings 8
- 2 Chronicles 5
- Genesis 2
- Zechariah 2
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 5:2In contextAnd he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
- Genesis 6:15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Genesis 13:17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
- Exodus 25:10And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
- Exodus 25:17And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
- Exodus 25:23Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
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Hebrew dictionary
רֹ֫חַב rochav · width
breadth, width, expanse
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “width” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WIDTH, noun
[from wide.]
Breadth; wideness; the extent of a thing from side to side; as the width of cloth; the width of a door.
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.