H4801 · מֶרְחָק
merchâq · mer-khawk' · far, far country
H4801 (merchâq, pronounced mer-khawk') is the Hebrew word מֶרְחָק in Strong’s dictionary: remoteness, i.e. (concretely) a distant place. It appears 18 times in 18 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- מֶרְחָק (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- merchâq
- Pronunciation
- mer-khawk'
- Derivation
- ; from H7368 (רָחַק);
- Definition
- remoteness, i.e. (concretely) a distant place; often (adverbially) from afar
- Rendered in the KJV
- (a-, dwell in, very) far (country, off). See also H1023 (בֵּית הַמֶּרְחָק).
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
18 occurrences in 18 verses.
How the BSB renders it
- “from afar” ×5
- “from a distant” ×3
- “a distant” ×1
- “far away” ×1
- “from a far-off” ×1
- “from a land far away” ×1
- “from faraway” ×1
- “in distant” ×1
By book
2 Samuel 1 · Psalms 1 · Proverbs 2 · Isaiah 7 · Jeremiah 5 · Ezekiel 1 · Zechariah 1
Verses
- 2 Samuel 15:17
- Psalms 138:6
- Proverbs 25:25
- Proverbs 31:14
- Isaiah 8:9
- Isaiah 10:3
- Isaiah 13:5
- Isaiah 17:13
- Isaiah 30:27
- Isaiah 33:17
- Isaiah 46:11
- Jeremiah 4:16
- Jeremiah 5:15
- Jeremiah 6:20
- Jeremiah 8:19
- Jeremiah 31:10
- Ezekiel 23:40
- Zechariah 10:9
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H4801.