# רָחַק (rachaq) Israeli respelling: ra-chaq. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H7368. 56 Old Testament occurrences. to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation) King James renderings: (a-, be, cast, drive, get, go, keep (self), put, remove, be too, (wander), withdraw) far (away, off), loose, [idiom] refrain, very, (be) a good way (off). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/rachaq-h7368 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/16) — And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child.… - [Genesis 44:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/44/4) — And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost ov… - [Exodus 8:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/8/28) — And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intr… - [Exodus 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/7) — Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. - [Exodus 33:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/33/7) — And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. A… - [Deuteronomy 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/21) — If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flo… - [Deuteronomy 14:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/24) — And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God sh… - [Joshua 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/3/16) — That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those th… - [Joshua 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/4) — And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be y… - [Judges 18:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/18/22) — And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and ov… - [Job 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/4) — His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. - [Job 11:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/14) — If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. - [Job 13:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/21) — Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. - [Job 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/13) — He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. - [Job 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/16) — Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. - [Job 22:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/18) — Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. - [Job 22:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/23) — If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. - [Job 30:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/10) — They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. - [Psalms 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/11) — Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. - [Psalms 22:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/19) — But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. - [Psalms 35:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/22) — This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. - [Psalms 38:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/21) — Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. - [Psalms 55:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/7) — Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. - [Psalms 71:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/12) — O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help. - [Psalms 88:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/8) — Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. - [Psalms 88:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/18) — Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. - [Psalms 103:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/103/12) — As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. - [Psalms 109:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/17) — As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. - [Psalms 119:150](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/150) — They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. - [Proverbs 4:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/24) — Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. - [Proverbs 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/8) — Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: - [Proverbs 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/7) — All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting t… - [Proverbs 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/5) — Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. - [Proverbs 22:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/15) — Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. - [Proverbs 30:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/8) — Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: - [Ecclesiastes 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/5) — A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; - [Ecclesiastes 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/6) — Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the ciste… - [Isaiah 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/6/12) — And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. - [Isaiah 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/15) — Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of… - [Isaiah 29:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/13) — Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their h… - [Isaiah 46:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/46/13) — I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my… - [Isaiah 49:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/19) — For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they… - [Isaiah 54:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/14) — In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not c… - [Isaiah 59:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/9) — Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk i… - [Isaiah 59:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/11) — We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. - [Jeremiah 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/5) — Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are bec… - [Jeremiah 27:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/27/10) — For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish. - [Lamentations 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/16) — For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my c… - [Ezekiel 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/6) — He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, tha… - [Ezekiel 11:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/11/15) — Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants… - [Ezekiel 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/11/16) — Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the c… - [Ezekiel 43:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/9) — Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. - [Ezekiel 44:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/10) — And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even… - [Joel 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/20) — But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea… - [Joel 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/3/6) — The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. - [Micah 7:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/11) — In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.