רַק raq

Hebrew word for “except” · Strong’s H7535 · used 109 times in 107 verses

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Meaning

1) only, altogether, surely;

How it is translated

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

• only 102
• certainly 6
• ¿ only 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Job 1 (5), Exodus 8 (4), Deuteronomy 12 (4), Joshua 6 (4), Deuteronomy 2 (3), Deuteronomy 20 (3), Joshua 1 (3), Joshua 11 (3), 1 Kings 8 (3), 1 Kings 15 (3)

Forms

• רק 106
• ורק 2
• הרק 1

Words used with it

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

• סוּר sur “to turn aside” 17
• זָבַח zavach “to sacrifice” 10
• בָּמָה bamah “high place” 9
• שָׁמַר shamar “to keep” 12
• עִיר ir “city” 14
• צָוָה tsavah “to command” 11
• עַיִן ayin “eye” 12
• בַּד bad “alone” 8
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 11
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 11
• עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 11
• שָׁאַר shaar “to remain” 7

Key verses

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

• Genesis 6:5 — And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Deuteronomy 4:6 — Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely…
• Deuteronomy 4:9 — Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the…
• Deuteronomy 17:16 — But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath…
• Joshua 1:7 — Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to…
• Joshua 6:17 — And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house,…
• Joshua 22:5 — But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his…
• 1 Kings 3:3 — And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
• 1 Kings 21:25 — But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
• Psalms 32:6 — For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto…
• Proverbs 13:10 — Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
• Amos 3:2 — You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

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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.