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title: רָוַח — be wide · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָוַח (7304), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: be wide. BDB 1906: vb. be wide, spacious. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָוַח

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«רָוַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be wide** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 7304 · **BDB:** רָוַח

### Glosses

it.was.relief (1); spacious (1); that.it.may.be.relief (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be wide [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7304/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be wide, spacious [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7304/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be wide, spacious (NH id., extend (intrans.), רֶוַח wide space; Arabic رَوِحَ be wide (between thighs), and deriv.; cf. perhaps Ethiopic ረኀወ make open, open (der. spec.; Di 293); Aramaic רְוַח be wide (usually fig. as Heb.), ܪܳܚ, ܪܘܰܚ be wide, enlarged);— Pf. 3 ms. ר׳, sq. ל pers. 1 S 16:23 fig. there was enlargement, relief, for Saul; Impf. 3 ms. יִרְוַח לִי Jb 32:20 that there may be relief for me. Pt. pl. מְרֻוָּחִים Je 22:14 spacious (of rooms; ‖ בֵּית מִדּוֹת).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רָוַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7304/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 32:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.20/)

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אֲדַבְּרָ֥ה וְיִֽרְוַֽח־לִ֑י אֶפְתַּ֖ח שְׂפָתַ֣י וְאֶֽעֱנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* let.me.speak so that.it.may.be.relief to me let.me.open lips my so that.I.may.answer

*JPS 1917:* I will speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.

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[Jeremiah 22:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.14/)

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הָאֹמֵ֗ר אֶבְנֶה־לִּי֙ בֵּ֣ית מִדּ֔וֹת וַעֲלִיּ֖וֹת מְרֻוָּחִ֑ים וְקָ֤רַֽע לוֹ֙ חַלּוֹנָ֔י וְסָפ֣וּן בָּאָ֔רֶז וּמָשׁ֖וֹחַ בַּשָּׁשַֽׁר׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].says I.will.build for myself a.house of.size(s) and upper.rooms spacious and he.will.tear for himself windows my and paneled with (the) cedar and he.will.smear.\[it\] with (the) vermilion

*JPS 1917:* That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

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