רָחַק râchaq

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: (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).

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 21:16 Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
• Genesis 44:4 They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
• Exodus 8:28 Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”
• Exodus 23:7 Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.
• Exodus 33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting, and anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp.
• Deuteronomy 12:21 If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
• Deuteronomy 14:24 But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,
• Joshua 3:16 the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
• Joshua 8:4 with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.
• Judges 18:22 After they were some distance from Micah’s house, the men in the houses near Micah’s house mobilized and overtook the Danites.
• Job 5:4 His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
• Job 11:14 if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
• Job 13:21 Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
• Job 19:13 He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
• Job 21:16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
• Job 22:18 But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
• Job 22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
• Job 30:10 They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
• Psalms 22:11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
• Psalms 22:19 But You, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
• Psalms 35:22 O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.
• Psalms 38:21 Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
• Psalms 55:7 How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
• Psalms 71:12 Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.
• Psalms 88:8 You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
• Psalms 88:18 You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
• Psalms 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
• Psalms 109:17 The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
• Psalms 119:150 Those who follow after wickedness draw near; they are far from Your law.
• Proverbs 4:24 Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.
• Proverbs 5:8 Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
• Proverbs 19:7 All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
• Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
• Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
• Proverbs 30:8 Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
• 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,
• Isaiah 6:12 until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
• Isaiah 26:15 You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.
• Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
• Isaiah 46:13 I am bringing My righteousness near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion and adorn Israel with My splendor.
• Isaiah 49:19 For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
• Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear. Terror will be far removed, for it will not come near you.
• Isaiah 59:9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
• Isaiah 59:11 We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
• Jeremiah 2:5 This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.
• Jeremiah 27:10 For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish.
• Lamentations 1:16 For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
• Ezekiel 8:6 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.”
• Ezekiel 11:15 “Son of man, your brothers—your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel—are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
• Ezekiel 11:16 Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
• Ezekiel 43:9 Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.
• Ezekiel 44:10 Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.
• Joel 2:20 The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
• Joel 3:6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
• Micah 7:11 The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.