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Hebrew wordlink #100251

OSHB Jos 3:16 הַרְחֵק (harḩēq) Strongs=7368 Lemma=‘רָחַק’
contextual word gloss=‘far_away’ word gloss=‘extended’
Morphology=Vha PoS=hiphil_verb Type=infinitive_absolute
Year=-1451 TimeSeries=Crossing_the_Jordan_into_Canaan

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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 8:24 contextual word gloss=‘definitely_(be_far_away)’ word gloss=‘to_go_far’ OSHB EXO 8:24 word 11

OET-LV: 24  and_ Parˊoh _he/it _said I I _will _let _go you(pl) and_you(pl)_will _sacrifice to/for_YHWH god _of_your(pl) in_wilderness only definitely _(be _far _away) not you(pl)_must _be _far _away to_go pray for_me. (EXO_8:24)

OET-RV: 24 So Yahweh did what he’d said and a heavy swarm came to Far’oh’s house and the houses of his servants and all the Egyptians—the country was ruined by the arrival of the swarm. (EXO 8:24)

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)

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’.