International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
RANGEranj: "Range" and "rank" have the same derivation, and in the sense of a "row" (of men, etc.) they were formerly interchangeable. "Range" with this meaning is found in 2 Kings 11:8, 15 the King James Version parallel 2 Chronicles 23:14 (the Revised Version (British and American) "rank"; sedherah, "row"). Hence, "to range" is "to set in a line" (Judith 2:16; 2 Maccabees 12:20, diatasso) or "to move in a line" or, simply, "to roam," whence "a ranging bear" (Proverbs 28:15; shaqaq, "run to and fro"). A cooking "range" is a stove on which pots, etc., can be set in a row, but the kirayim of Leviticus 11:35 is a much more primitive affair, composed, probably, of two plates (kirayim is a dual). In Job 39:8 "range of the mountains" is good modern use, but ythr, should be pointed yathur (not yethur as in Massoretic Text) and connected with tur, "search." So translate. "He searcheth out the mountains as his pasture."
Burton Scott Easton
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
2. (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
3. (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
4. (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
5. (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
6. (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
7. (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
8. (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
9. (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
10. (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
11. (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
12. (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
13. (n.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
14. (n.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
15. (n.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
16. (n.) A kitchen grate.
17. (n.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
18. (n.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
19. (n.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
20. (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
21. (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
22. (n.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
23. (n.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
24. (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
25. (n.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
26. (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
27. (v.) See Range of cable, below.
Strong's Hebrew
3491. yethur -- range... yethur. 3492 >>.
range. Transliteration: yethur Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-thoor')
Short Definition:
range. Word Origin another reading for tur, qv.
range ... /hebrew/3491.htm - 5k 3844. Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the N. border of Isr.
... Lebanon. 3845 >>. a wooded mountain range on the N. border of Isr. ... Word Origin from
laben Definition a wooded mountain range on the N. border of Isr. ...
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8165. Seir -- a mountain range in Edom, also its inhab., also a ...
... Seir. 8166 >>. a mountain range in Edom, also its inhab., also a mountain in Judah.
Transliteration: Seir Phonetic Spelling: (say-eer') Short Definition: Seir. ...
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4278. mechqar -- a range (an area to explore)
... << 4277, 4278. mechqar. 4279 >>. a range (an area to explore). Transliteration:
mechqar Phonetic Spelling: (mekh-kawr') Short Definition: depths. ...
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3600. kir -- cooking furnace
... a cooking range. A form for kuwr (only in the dual); a cooking range (consisting
of two parallel stones, across which the boiler is set): see HEBREW kuwr. ...
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7713. sederah -- row, rank (of soldiers)
... board, range. From an unused root meaning to regulate; a row, ie Rank (of soldiers),
story (of rooms) -- board, range. << 7712, 7713. sederah. 7714 >>. ...
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8264. shaqaq -- to run, run about, rush
... have appetite, long, range, run to and fro. A primitive root; to course
(like a beast of prey); by implication, to seek greedily ...
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7751a. shut -- to go or rove about
... to go or rove about NASB Word Usage go to and fro (1), go about (2), go back (1),
go back and forth (1), gone about (1), move to and fro (1), range to and fro ...
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2022. har -- mountain, hill, hill country
... A shortened form of harar; a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively) --
hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion. see HEBREW harar. ...
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2905. tur -- a row
... row. From an unused root meaning to range in a regular manner; a row; hence,
a wall -- row. << 2904, 2905. tur. 2906 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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