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.