Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H7343
רָחָב
Rachabraw-khawb'
Rahab
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Râchâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7343is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7343
Rachab, a Canaanitess
The King James renders it: Rahab.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Rachab is rendered "Rahab". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 2:1Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
Joshua 2:1רָחָ֖ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in Joshua.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Rahab5
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- רָחָ֖ב2
- רָחָ֨ב1
- רָ֠חָב1
- רָחָ֣ב1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)5HNpf
Joshua
five uses
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
- רָחָ֖בrachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Rahab
So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”
- רָחָ֖בrachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Rahab
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
- רָחָ֨בrachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Rahab
So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.
- רָ֠חָבrachoproper noun (a name)tagged: Rahab
And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.
- רָחָ֣בrachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Rahab
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.