Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
Broad
Usage: § broad, wide
Rachab means “roomy” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7342 רָחָב (rachab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. rachab (raw-khawb') adj. 1. roomy, in any (or every) direction, literally or figuratively [from H7337] It has 21 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include large, broad, wide, proud, and any. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
rachab (raw-khawb') adj. 1. roomy, in any (or every) direction, literally or figuratively [from H7337] KJV: broad, large, at liberty, proud, wide. Root(s): H7337
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Broad
Usage: § broad, wide
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render rachab, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7342.
These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
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Rachab (Strong's H7342) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "roomy". rachab (raw-khawb') adj. 1. roomy, in any (or every) direction, literally or figuratively [from H7337]
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H7342 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7342 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as large, broad, wide, proud, any, and liberty. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.