Strong’s H4800 · Hebrew
מֶרְחָב
merchâb · mer-khawb'
Origin from רָחַב (H7337);
Meaning enlargement, either literally (an open space, usually in a good sense), or figuratively (liberty)
In the King James Version breadth, large place (room).
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Samuel 22:20He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
- Psalms 18:19He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
- Psalms 31:8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
- Psalms 118:5I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
- Hosea 4:16For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
- Habakkuk 1:6For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.