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title: רַחַב — breadth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רַחַב (7338), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: breadth. BDB 1906: breadth, broad expanse. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רַחַב

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«רַחַב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **breadth** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 7338 · **BDB:** רַ֫חַב

### Glosses

\[the\].broad.spaces (1); a.broad.space (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

breadth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7338/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

breadth, broad expanse [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7338/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m. not f. Jb 36:16 AlbrZAW xvl (1896), 94 Di Bu\] breadth, broad expanse;—abs. ר׳ Jb 36:16 (opp. צָ֑ר); pl. cstr. intens. רַחֲבֵי־אָ֑רֶץ 38:18 the broad expanse of earth.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רַחַב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7338/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 38:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.18/)

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הִ֭תְבֹּנַנְתָּ עַד־רַחֲבֵי־אָ֑רֶץ הַ֝גֵּ֗ד אִם־יָדַ֥עְתָּ כֻלָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* have.you.shown.yourself.attentive? to \[the\].broad.spaces of.\[the\].earth tell if you.know of.it all

*JPS 1917:* Hast thou surveyed unto the breadths of the earth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.

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[Job 36:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.16/)

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וְאַ֤ף הֲסִיתְךָ֨ ׀ מִפִּי־צָ֗ר רַ֭חַב לֹא־מוּצָ֣ק תַּחְתֶּ֑יהָ וְנַ֥חַת שֻׁ֝לְחָנְךָ֗ מָ֣לֵא דָֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* and also he has.allured.you from.\[the\] mouth of.distress a.broad.space not constraint in its.place and the.quietness your.table your it.was.full fatness

*JPS 1917:* Yea, He hath allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table is full of fatness;

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