Strong's Hebrew · H4801
H4801 merchâq
מֶרְחָק
mer-khawk'
distance
Looking for Greek G4801 syzeúgnymi? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H4801. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
merchâq appears 18 times in Scripture, including 2 Samuel 15:17 and Psalms 138:6. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
remoteness, i.e. (concretely) a distant place; often (adverbially) from afar
In the King James Version
(a-, dwell in, very) far (country, off). See also H1023 (בֵּית הַמֶּרְחָק).
Derivation
; from H7368 (רָחַק);
Appears 18 times in Scripture
“Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.”
“She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.”
“Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.”
“So the king set out with all the people following him. He stopped at the last house,”
“Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!”
“Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.”
“What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?”
“The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.”
“Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stretches afar.”
“They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
