Strong's #7350: rachowq (pronounced raw-khoke')
or rachoq {raw-khoke'}; from 7368; remote, literally or figuratively, of place or time; specifically, precious; often used adverbially (with preposition):--(a-)far (abroad, off), long ago, of old, space, great while to come.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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râchôq
1) remote, far, distant, distant lands, distant ones (adjective)
1a) of distance, time
2) distance (noun masculine)
2a) from a distance (with preposition)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from H7368
Usage:
This word is used 85 times:
Genesis 22:4: "and saw the place afar off."
Genesis 37:18: "And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay"
Exodus 2:4: "And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done"
Exodus 20:18: "saw it, they removed, and stood afar off."
Exodus 20:21: "And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness"
Exodus 24:1: "of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off."
Numbers 9:10: "unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD."
Deuteronomy 13:7: "are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end"
Deuteronomy 20:15: "unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities"
Deuteronomy 28:49: "shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth,"
Deuteronomy 29:22: "after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say,"
Deuteronomy 30:11: "from thee, neither is it far off."
Joshua 3:4: "Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near"
Joshua 9:6: "the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make"
Joshua 9:9: "And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come"
Joshua 9:22: "us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among"
Judges 18:7: "in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no"
Judges 18:28: "deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business"
1 Samuel 26:13: "on the top of a hill afar off; a great space being between"
2 Samuel 7:19: "of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man,"
1 Kings 8:41: "of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;"
1 Kings 8:46: "unto the land of the enemy, far or near;"
2 Kings 2:7: "of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two"
2 Kings 19:25: "Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times"
2 Kings 20:14: "they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon."
1 Chronicles 17:17: "of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man"
2 Chronicles 6:32: "of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake,"
2 Chronicles 6:36: "and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;"
2 Chronicles 26:15: "stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously"
Ezra 3:13: "shout, and the noise was heard afar off."
Nehemiah 4:19: "upon the wall, one far from another."
Nehemiah 12:43: "so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off."
Esther 9:20: "of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,"
Job 2:12: "And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up"
Job 36:3: "I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker."
Job 36:25: "may see it; man may behold it afar off."
Job 39:25: "Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting."
Job 39:29: "she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off."
Psalms 10:1: "Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?"
Psalms 22:1: "my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?"
Psalms 38:11: "from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off."
Psalms 65:5: "of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:"
Psalms 103:12: " As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from"
Psalms 119:155: "Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes."
Psalms 139:2: "and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off."
Proverbs 7:19: "is not at home, he is gone a long journey:"
Proverbs 15:29: "The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous."
Proverbs 27:10: "is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off."
Proverbs 31:10: "a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies."
Ecclesiastes 7:23: "I said, I will be wise; but it was far from"
