רָחַק
râchaq · raw-khak'
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (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).
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to separate and protect › what comes behind, the returning cycle
The head, the highest that works to separate and protect of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָחַק above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
57 occurrences · 57 OT · 0 NT · 50 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- far10 · 25%
- be not far4 · 10%
- is far3 · 8%
- far away2 · 5%
- go1 · 3%
- very1 · 3%
- and not yet far off1 · 3%
- but be not thou far1 · 3%
- there be too far1 · 3%
- be too far1 · 3%
- as far as1 · 3%
- and when they were a good way1 · 3%
- are far1 · 3%
- put it far away1 · 3%
- thou shalt put away1 · 3%
- he hath put1 · 3%
- withdraw1 · 3%
- me, they flee far1 · 3%
- afar off1 · 3%
- far off1 · 3%
- thou hast put away1 · 3%
- hast thou put far1 · 3%
- keep thee far1 · 3%
- so far hath he removed1 · 3%
- him a good way off1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.