# H7368 רָחַק

רָחַק (râchaq), Strong’s H7368: to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation) KJV: (a-, be, cast, drive, get…

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

KJV: (a-, be, cast, drive, get, go, keep (self), put, remove, be too, (wander), withdraw)…

Occurs 58 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רָחַק vb. be, or become, far, distant
- Qal be far, distant
- Pi. send far away
- Hiph.
- 1 dir. caus. make, or exhibit, distance, be gone for
- 2 indir. caus. remove, put far away

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 21:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=16) — She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of…
- [Genesis 44:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=4) — When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men…
- [Exodus 8:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=24) — Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go…
- [Exodus 23:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=7) — “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
- [Exodus 33:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/33?v=7) — Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of…
- [Deuteronomy 12:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/12?v=21) — If the place which the LORD your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd…
- [Deuteronomy 14:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/14?v=24) — If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which the LORD your God shall…
- [Joshua 3:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/3?v=16) — the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside…
- [Joshua 8:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=4) — He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from…
- [Judges 18:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/18?v=22) — When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together…