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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #4800 - מֶרְחָב

Transliteration

merchâb

Phonetics

mer-khawb'

Origin

from (H7337)

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

2143c

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

broad or roomy place, wide, expanses

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (5)

2 Samuel 1

Psalms 2

Hosea 1

Habakkuk 1

BSB (6)

2 Samuel 1

Psalms 3

Hosea 1

Habakkuk 1

CSB (5)

2 Samuel 1

Psalms 3

Hosea 1

Habakkuk 1

ESV (6)

2 Samuel 1

Psalms 3

Hosea 1

Habakkuk 1

KJV (6)

2 Samuel 1

Psalms 3

Hosea 1

Habakkuk 1

LEB (6)

2 Samuel 1

Psalms 3

Hosea 1

Habakkuk 1

LSB (11)

2 Samuel 2

Psalms 6

Hosea 2

Habakkuk 1

N95 (5)

2 Samuel 2

Hosea 2

Habakkuk 1

NAS (11)

2 Samuel 2

Psalms 6

Hosea 2

Habakkuk 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (6)

2 Samuel 1

Psalms 3

Hosea 1

Habakkuk 1

ASV (5)

also into a large place 2

in a large place 2

through the breadth 1

BSB (6)

and set me free 1

in an open meadow 1

in the open 1

into the open 2

through the breadth 1

CSB (5)

a spacious place 3

an open meadow 1

place 1

ESV (6)

breadth 1

broad 1

broad pasture 1

broad place 2

free 1

KJV (6)

breadth 1

place 4

room 1

LEB (6)

in a broad place 1

in broad pasture 1

me out to a spacious place 2

setting me in a broad place 1

through the spacious places of 1

LSB (11)

breadth 1

broad 2

field 1

large 3

place 4

N95 (5)

broad 1

field 1

large 1

place 1

throughout 1

NAS (11)

field 1

large 2

open 3

place 3

space 1

throughout 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (6)

also into a large place 1

in a large place 1

in a meadow 1

into a large place 1

me with freedom 1

through the breadth 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2759) b h r (רההב RHhB) AC: Widen CO: Street AB: Width: [from: kr]

V) b h r (רההב RHhB) - Widen: To make wide, large or roomy. KJV (25): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Participle) enlarge, wide, large, room - Strongs: H7337 (רָחַב)

N^m) b h r (רההב RHhB) - Wide: KJV (21): large, broad, proud, wide, liberty, breadth - Strongs: H7338 (רַחַב), H7342 (רָחָב)

c^f) b f h r (רההוב RHhWB) - Street: As wide. KJV (43): street, ways, place - Strongs: H7339 (רְחוֹב)

g^m) b h f r (רוההב RWHhB) - Width: KJV (101): breadth, broad, thickness, largeness, thick, wilderness - Strongs: H7341 (רֹחַב)

k^m) b h r m (מרההב MRHhB) - Wide place: KJV (6): large, breadth - Strongs: H4800 (מֶרְחָב)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

מֶרְחָב noun [masculine] broad, roomy, place; — absolute ׳מ, of pasture Hosea 4:16 (in simile); figurative of freedom from distress and anxiety 2 Samuel 22:20 = Psalm 18:20; Psalm 31:9; Psalm 118:5 (ᵑ0 construct in מֶרְחַבְיָה spacious place of Yah, i.e. extraordinarily spacious, < מֶרְחָב יָהּ, יָהּ being subject of verb); plural construct מֶרְחֲבֵיאֶֿרֶץ Habakkuk 1:6 expanses of the earth.

רחה (√ of following; meaning unknown; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic handmill (compare Wetzst^{Siebe, ZPV xiv (1891), 4}); Aramaic רִיחְיָא, ; Lag^{BN 157} Ba^{NB 9,21}).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

מֶרְחָב m. (from the root רָחַב), broad space, Habakkuk 1:6. Often metaph. used of liberty and welfare (opp. to distresses, צַר; compare יָשַׁע); Psalms 18:20, וַיּוֹצִיאֵנִי לַמֶּרְחֶב “and he brought me out into a wide space,” i.e. he delivered me from distresses, Psalms 31:9, 118:5. Once used in a bad sense, Hosea 4:16, כְּכֶבֶשׂ בַּמֶּרְחָב “like a lamb in a wide space,” where it might easily wander from the flock.

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List of Word Forms

בַּמֶּרְחָֽב׃ בַמֶּרְחָ֣ב במרחב במרחב׃ לְמֶרְחֲבֵי־ לַמֶּרְחָ֑ב לַמֶּרְחָ֖ב למרחב למרחבי־ bam·mer·ḥāḇ ḇam·mer·ḥāḇ bammerChav bammerḥāḇ ḇammerḥāḇ lam·mer·ḥāḇ lammerChav lammerḥāḇ lə·mer·ḥă·ḇê- lemerchavei ləmerḥăḇê- vammerChav