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To remove

רָחַקStrong’s H7368

rachaq (ra-chaq)

Appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Rachaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “are distant”, “it is far” and “it will be far”. It appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament.

“And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.”
Genesis 21:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. To be or become far, be or become distant, be removed, go far away(Qal) to be far, be distant · (Piel) to send far away, extend · (Hiphil)
  2. (Niphal) loose
  3. At a distance
How it's translated
  • they are distant 4
  • it is far 4
  • it will be far 3
  • put far away 3
  • you be distant 3
  • at a distance 2
  • you be far 2
  • you have removed far away 2

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 11
  • Job 8
  • Isaiah 8
  • Proverbs 6
  • Ezekiel 5
  • Exodus 3

15 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 55 verses, by book
Genesis 2
21:1644:4
Exodus 3
8:2823:733:7
Deuteronomy 2
12:2114:24
Joshua 2
3:168:4
Judges 1
18:22
Ecclesiastes 1
3:5
Jeremiah 2
2:527:10
Lamentations 1
1:16
Joel 2
2:203:6
Micah 1
7:11
Hebrew dictionary

רָחַק rachaq · to remove

v 1) to be or become far, be or become distant, be removed, go far away 1a) (Qal) to be far, be distant 1b) (Piel) to send far away, extend 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to make or exhibit distance, be gone far 1c2) to remove, put far away 2) (Niphal) loose v inf (as adv) 3) at a distance

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.