Strong’s H7368 · Hebrew

רָחַק
râchaq
raw-khak'

Definition

to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • (a-
  • be
  • cast
  • drive
  • get
  • go
  • keep (self)
  • put
  • remove
  • be too
  • (wander)
  • withdraw) far (away
  • off)
  • loose
  • refrain
  • very
  • (be) a good way (off)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.