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title: רָחֵק — removing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָחֵק (7369), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: removing. BDB 1906: adj.verb. removing, departing. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָחֵק

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«רָחֵק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **removing** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7369 · **BDB:** רָחֵק

### Glosses

\[people\].far (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

removing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7369/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.verb. removing, departing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7369/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.verb. removing, departing;—pl. sf., as subst., רְהֵקֶיךָ ψ 73:27 those departing from thee (i.e. from י׳).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רָחֵק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7369/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 73:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.27/)

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כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֣ה רְחֵקֶ֣יךָ יֹאבֵ֑דוּ הִ֝צְמַ֗תָּה כָּל־זוֹנֶ֥ה מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) there! \[people\].far from.you they.will.perish you.destroy every \[one.who\].acts.as.a.prostitute from you

*JPS 1917:* For, lo, they that go far from Thee shall perish; Thou dost destroy all them that go astray from Thee.

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