Strong's #7368: rachaq (pronounced raw-khak')
a primitive root; to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation):--(a-, be, cast, drive, get, go, keep (self), put, remove, be too, (wander), withdraw) far (away, off), loose, X refrain, very, (be) a good way (off).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
râchaq
1) to be or become far, be or become distant, be removed, go far away (verb)
1a) (Qal) to be far, be distant
1b) (Piel) to send far away, extend
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to make or exhibit distance, be gone far
1c2) to remove, put far away
2) (Niphal) loose (verb)
3) at a distance (verbal infinitive [as adverb])
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 57 times:
Ezekiel 11:15: "the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this"
Ezekiel 11:16: "the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries,"
Ezekiel 43:9: "Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcasses of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell"
Ezekiel 44:10: "And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel"
Joel 2:20: " But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren"
Joel 3:6: "have ye sold unto the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border."
Micah 7:11: "in that day shall the decree be far removed."
