Lexical Summary merchab: a broad or roomy place Original Word: מֶרְחָבTransliteration: merchab Phonetic Spelling: (mer-khawb') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a broad or roomy place Meaning: a broad or roomy place Strong's Concordance 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 Brown-Driver-Briggs H4800. merchab 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; 31:9; 118:5 (ᵑ0 construct in מֶרְחַבְיָה spacious place of Yah, i.e. extraordinarily spacious, < יָהּ יָהּ, מֶרְחָב 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). |
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