Lexicon merchab: a broad or roomy place Original Word: מֶרְחָבPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: merchab Phonetic Spelling: (mer-khawb') Short Definition: place NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom rachabDefinitiona broad or roomy place NASB Translationbroad place (2), large field (1), large place (2), throughout (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מֶרְחָב noun [masculine] broad, roomy, place; — absolute ׳מ, of pasture Hosea 4:16 (in simile); figurative of freedom from distress and anxiety 2 Samuel 22:20 = Psalm 18:20; Psalm 31:9; Psalm 118:5 ( ᵑ0 construct in מֶרְחַבְיָה spacious place of Yah, i.e. extraordinarily spacious, < מֶרְחָב יָהּ, יָהּ being subject of verb); plural construct מֶרְחֲבֵיאֶֿרֶץ Habakkuk 1:6 expanses of the earth. רחה (√ of following; meaning unknown; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic  handmill (compare WetzstSiebe, ZPV xiv (1891), 4); Aramaic רִיחְיָא,  ; LagBN 157 BaNB 9, 21).
Strong's breadth, large place room From rachab; enlargement, either literally (an open space, usually in a good sense), or figuratively (liberty) -- breadth, large place (room). see HEBREW rachab |
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