רֹחַב rochav

Hebrew word for “width” · Strong’s H7341 · used 101 times in 89 verses

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Meaning

breadth, width, expanse

How it is translated

Glosses given for rochav in context, with how often each is used:

• breadth 101

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 40 (17), Ezekiel 41 (11), Ezekiel 42 (5), Ezekiel 48 (5), Exodus 27 (4), Exodus 37 (4), 1 Kings 6 (4), Ezekiel 43 (4), Ezekiel 45 (4), Exodus 25 (3)

Forms

• ורחב 34
• רחב 34
• רחבו 15
• רחבה 9
• ברחב 3
• ורחבו 2
• ולרחבה 1
• והרחב 1
• רחבן 1
• ורחבה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with rochav more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֹרֶךְ orekh “length” 65
• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 65
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 31
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 29
• קוֹמָה qomah “height” 18
• מָדַד madad “to measure” 16
• עֶשֶׂר eser “ten” 16
• מִדָּה middah “measure” 12
• סָבִיב saviv “around” 16
• אֶחָד echad “one” 18
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 14
• חֲמִשִּׁים chamishshim “fifty” 12

Key verses

The verses using rochav that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 25:23 — Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height…
• Exodus 27:1 — And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three…
• Exodus 38:1 — And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three…
• Deuteronomy 3:11 — For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine…
• 1 Kings 4:29 — And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
• 2 Chronicles 4:1 — Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
• 2 Chronicles 6:13 — For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon…
• Isaiah 8:8 — And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of…
• Ezekiel 40:6 — Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and…
• Ezekiel 40:29 — And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches…
• Ezekiel 41:1 — Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth…
• Ezekiel 42:20 — He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.