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Hebrew wordlink #29025

OSHB Exo 8:24 הַרְחֵק (harḩēq) Strongs=7368 Lemma=‘רָחַק’
contextual word gloss=‘definitely_(be_far_away)’ word gloss=‘to_go_far’
Morphology=Vha PoS=hiphil_verb Type=infinitive_absolute
Year=-1491 TimeSeries=Exodus_from_Egypt

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Other uses (3) of identical word form הַרְחֵק (Morphology=Vha PoS=hiphil_verb Type=infinitive_absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘הַרְחֵק’ (Morphology=Vha PoS=hiphil_verb Type=infinitive_absolute) has 3 different glosses: ‘at_a_distance’, ‘definitely_(be_far_away)’, ‘far_away’.

GEN 21:16 contextual word gloss=‘at_a_distance’ word gloss=‘away’ OSHB GEN 21:16 word 5

OET-LV: 16 And_she _went and_she _sat to/for_her/it from_before at _a _distance like_the_shooters _of a _bow if/because she _said not let _me _look on_the _death _of the _boy and_she _sat from_before and_she _lifted _up DOM voice _of_her and_she _wept. (GEN_21:16)

OET-RV: 16 and she went and she went a short distance away (about as far as a bow can shoot an arrow) and sat down there, because she said, “I don’t want to watch my child die.” And as she sat at a distance, she sobbed loudly. (GEN 21:16)

EXO 33:7 contextual word gloss=‘at_a_distance’ word gloss=‘far_off’ OSHB EXO 33:7 word 9

OET-LV: 7 And_Mosheh he _took DOM the_tent and_he _pitched to_him/it from_the_outside of_camp at _a _distance from the_camp and_he _called to_him/it the _tent _of meeting and_it _was any _of one _who_sought YHWH he _went _out to the _tent _of meeting which was_from_the_outside of_camp. (EXO_33:7)

OET-RV: 7 From that day onwards, Mosheh would take a tent and would put it up at a distance outside the camp—he called it ‘the tent of meeting’. Then anyone who wanted a decision from Yahweh would go out to that tent of meeting outside the camp. (EXO 33:7)

JOS 3:16 contextual word gloss=‘far_away’ word gloss=‘extended’ OSHB JOS 3:16 word 8

OET-LV: 16 And_they _stood the_waters which_came_down from_to_above they _rose a _heap one far _away very from_ʼĀdām the_city which is_from_the _side _of Tsₑrətān/(Zarethan) and_those_which_went _down to the _sea _of the _ˊArāⱱāh the _Sea _of (the)_Salt they _were _complete they _were _cut _off and_the_people they _passed _over before Yərīḩō/(Jericho). (JOS_3:16)

OET-RV: 16 then the water coming from upstream suddenly stopped flowing. The water far upstream piled up near a town called Adam (near Tsaretan), and the water that normally flowed down towards the Sea of Arabah (also called the Dead Sea or the Salt Sea) stopped flowing, so the people were able to cross what was the Yordan River opposite Yericho. (JOS 3:16)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘רָחַק’’ have 5 different glosses: ‘at_a_distance’, ‘definitely_(be_far_away)’, ‘far_away’, ‘make_far_away’, ‘put_far_away’.