Quick Definition
to remove
Strong's Definition
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: (a-, be, cast, drive, get, go, keep (self), put, remove, be too, (wander), withdraw) far (away, off), loose, [idiom] refrain, very, (be) a good way (off).
TWOT Reference: 2151
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
רָחַק (ra.chaq) — 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מֶרְחָק · רָחֹוק · רָחֵק
Space | verb hif, verb qal
to be far, to go far, to stay far = state in which humans or objects are located in a place that is at a relatively great distance from the point of reference
GEN 21:16 · GEN 44:4 · EXO 8:24 · EXO 8:24 · EXO 33:7 · DEU 12:21 · DEU 14:24 · JOS 3:16 · JOS 8:4 · JDG 18:22 · JOB 30:10 · PSA 55:8 · PSA 103:12 · PRO 5:8 · PRO 19:7 · PRO 22:5 · ISA 49:19 · LAM 1:16 · EZK 11:15
Space | verb hif, verb pi
to put far away, to remove = causative action by which humans or deities cause (other) humans or animals to be located in a place that is at a relatively great distance from the point of reference
ISA 6:12 · JER 27:10 · EZK 8:6 · EZK 11:16 · JOL 2:20 · JOL 4:6
Delay | verb qal
to be far off (in time) literally: to be far off; hence: = state in which an event is in the distant future
Dissociate | verb qal, verb hif
to be far (from someone) literally: to be far (from someone else); hence: = state in which humans or deities are no longer associating with (other) humans or deities, ◄ as if they have distanced themselves
PSA 22:12 · PSA 22:20 · PSA 35:22 · PSA 38:22 · PSA 71:12 · JER 2:5 · EZK 44:10
Dissociate | verb hif
to make shun literally: to cause to be far (from someone else); hence: = causative action by which deities cause humans to stop associating with (other) humans, ◄ as if they have distanced themselves
Non-Engage | verb qal
to be far from (an activity) literally: to be far (from an event); hence: = state in which humans are not able to engage in a certain event, ◄ as if the event has distanced itself from them
JOB 5:4 · JOB 21:16 · JOB 22:18 · PSA 109:17 · PSA 119:150 · ISA 54:14 · ISA 59:9 · ISA 59:11
Non-Engage | verb pi
to avoid, to refrain from literally: to put (an event) far (from someone else); hence: = action by which humans do not engage in a certain event, ◄ as if they have distanced the event from reality
Non-Engage | verb qal, verb hif
to avoid, to refrain from literally: to stay far (from an event); hence: = action by which humans do not engage in a certain event, ◄ as if they have distanced themselves from the event
Non-Engage | verb hif
to remove (a condition) from (someone) literally: to put (an event) far (from someone else); hence: = causative action by which deities or circumstances cause humans not to engage in a certain event, ◄ as if they have distanced the event from them
Free | verb hif
Collocation: רחק כַּף
to withdraw (one's) hands (from someone), to stop punishing literally: to put (one's) palms far (from someone else); hence: = causative action by which deities release their control of someone else
Innocent | verb hif
to put away (sins), to forgive literally: to put (someone's) sins far (from that person); hence: = action by which deities fully forgive someone's sins and shortcomings ◄ as if by moving them to a distant place
Large | verb pi, verb qal
to extend boundaries (of a land) literally: to cause ends or boundaries to be far; hence: = causative action by which deities enlarge a territory ◄ by extending its boundaries
Think | verb pi
Collocation: רחק לֵב
to refuse to think (about someone) literally: to put (one's) heart far (from a deity); hence: = action by which humans refuse to think or take notice of a certain deity
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
רָחַק vb. be, or become, far, distant Qal be far, distant
Pi. send far away
Hiph. dir. caus. make, or exhibit, distance, be gone for
indir. caus. remove, put far away
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