International Standard Bible Encyclopedia BROADbrod (rochabh, "width"; rechobh, "a broadway," "street," "court"; eurchoros, "spacious"): Occurs frequently as a term of dimension (Exodus 27:1 1 Kings 6:6 Ezekiel 40:6, 43 the Revised Version (British and American), "handbreadth long") and as indicative of strength (Nehemiah 3:8 Jeremiah 51:58). The centers of communal life are called the "broad places," often rendered "streets" (Jeremiah 5:1 Songs 3:2 Nahum 2:4). A court before the temple: "the broad place on the east" (the King James Version "the east street," 2 Chronicles 29:4); "broad plates" (Numbers 16:38, 39, the Revised Version (British and American) "beaten"). PLACE, BROAD; HIGH See CITY, II, 3, 2; HIGH PLACE; OPEN PLACE. BROAD PLACE See CITY. Greek 4115. platuno -- to make broad ... to make broad. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: platuno Phonetic Spelling: (plat-oo'-no) Short Definition: I enlarge Definition: I enlarge, make broad; met ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4115.htm - 6k 4116. platus -- broad, subst. a street 4109. plax -- anything flat and broad, hence a flat stone 4501b. rhomphaia -- a large broad sword, generally a sword 2149. euruchoros -- spacious 4501. rhomphaia -- Rompha, Rephan, the name of an Eg. god 630. apoluo -- to set free, release 4113. plateia -- a wide road, street. 1321. didasko -- to teach 5357. phiale -- a (shallow) bowl Strong's Hebrew 7342. rachab -- wide, broad... 7341, 7342. rachab. 7343 . wide, broad. Transliteration: rachab Phonetic Spelling: (raw-khawb') Short Definition: broad. Word Origin ... /hebrew/7342.htm - 6k 7338. rachab -- breadth, broad expanse 7339. rechob -- a broad open place, plaza 4800. merchab -- a broad or roomy place 7344. Rechoboth -- "broad places," a well dug by Isaac, also two ... 7554. raqa -- to beat, stamp, beat out, spread out 7555. riqqua -- expansion 2948. tophach -- a span, handbreadth 7341. rochab -- breadth, width 1237. biqah -- a valley, plain Library The Broad Inner Horizon. Living Broad Lives in Narrow Alleys. Great Love Divine, Whose Compass Broad The Broad Wall The Church Militant 470. City of God, How Broad and Far I Will Rise Now and Go About the City in the Streets, and in the ... Of Honesty* (Four Articles) [*Honesty must be Taken Here in Its ... The Paradox of Love's Measure The Rivers of God Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (superl.) Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.2. (superl.) Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean. 3. (superl.) Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. 4. (superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. 5. (superl.) Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. 6. (superl.) Plain; evident; as, a broad hint. 7. (superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined. 8. (superl.) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth. 9. (superl.) Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor. 10. (superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. 11. (n.) The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar. 12. (n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. 13. (n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. Thesaurus Broad (113 Occurrences)... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (superl.) Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad. ... /b/broad.htm - 40k Broad-place (2 Occurrences) Broad-places (2 Occurrences) Sheet (9 Occurrences) Flap (1 Occurrence) Broaden (1 Occurrence) Slice (4 Occurrences) Jambs (19 Occurrences) Wide (206 Occurrences) Paddle (1 Occurrence) Bible Concordance Broad (113 Occurrences)Matthew 6:5 And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places -- standing -- to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward. Matthew 7:13 "Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. Matthew 12:19 He will not wrangle or raise His voice, nor will His voice be heard in the broadways. Matthew 23:5 But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments, Luke 10:10 "But whatever town you come to and they will not receive you, go out into the broader streets and say, Luke 13:26 then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach; Acts 5:15 so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay 'them' upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even 'his' shadow might overshadow some one of them; Romans 13:13 Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in quarrelling and jealousy. 2 Peter 2:13 being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their love-feasts, and banqueting with you. Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies are to lie in the broad street of the great city which spiritually is designated 'Sodom' and 'Egypt,' where indeed their Lord was crucified. Revelation 20:9 They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them. Revelation 22:2 in the midst of its broad place, and of the river on this side and on that, 'is' a tree of life, yielding twelve fruits, in each several month rendering its fruits, and the leaves of the tree 'are' for the service of the nations; Genesis 10:11 from that land he hath gone out to Asshur, and buildeth Nineveh, even the broad places of the city, and Calah, Genesis 19:2 and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. Exodus 3:8 and I go down to deliver it out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to cause it to go up out of the land, unto a land good and broad, unto a land flowing with milk and honey -- unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Exodus 27:1 "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits. Numbers 16:38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. Numbers 16:39 And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar: Numbers 25:4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel." Deuteronomy 13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, unto Jehovah thy God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again. Judges 18:10 When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is broad; yea, God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth." Judges 19:15 And they turned aside thither, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge. Judges 19:17 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou? Judges 19:20 And the old man said, Peace be unto thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street. 2 Samuel 12:11 "This is what Yahweh says:'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 2 Samuel 12:12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'" 2 Samuel 21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa; 2 Samuel 22:20 He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me. 1 Kings 6:4 And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work. 1 Kings 6:6 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house. 1 Chronicles 4:40 and they find pasture, fat and good, and the land broad of sides, and quiet, and safe, for of Ham are those dwelling there before. 2 Chronicles 6:13 (for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;) 2 Chronicles 29:4 He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east, 2 Chronicles 32:6 He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying, Ezra 10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain. Nehemiah 3:8 Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. Next to him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall. Nehemiah 7:4 And the city 'is' broad on both sides, and great, and the people 'are' few in its midst, and there are no houses builded; Nehemiah 8:1 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. Nehemiah 8:3 He read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. Nehemiah 8:16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, everyone on the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim. Nehemiah 9:35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. Nehemiah 12:38 The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall, Esther 4:6 So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate. Esther 6:9 and to give the clothing and the horse into the hand of a man of the heads of the king, the chiefs, and they have clothed the man in whose honour the king hath delighted, and caused him to ride on the horse in a broad place of the city, and called before him: Thus it is done to the man in whose honour the king hath delighted.' Esther 6:11 And Haman taketh the clothing, and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and causeth him to ride in a broad place of the city, and calleth before him, 'Thus it is done to the man in whose honour the king hath delighted.' Job 29:7 When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway, Job 36:16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness. Job 37:10 By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen. Job 38:18 Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare -- if thou hast known it all. Psalms 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me. Psalms 31:8 And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place. Psalms 55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets. Psalms 104:25 This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There 'are' moving things -- innumerable, Living creatures -- small with great. Psalms 110:6 He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth. Psalms 118:5 From the straitness I called Jah, Jah answered me in a broad place. Psalms 119:45 And I walk habitually in a broad place, For Thy precepts I have sought. Psalms 119:96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Psalms 144:14 When our oxen are well laden; When there is no breaking in, and no going forth, And no outcry in our streets: Proverbs 1:20 Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; Proverbs 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Proverbs 7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner. Proverbs 22:13 The slothful hath said, 'A lion 'is' without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.' Proverbs 26:13 The slothful hath said, 'A lion 'is' in the way, A lion 'is' in the broad places.' Song of Songs 3:2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. Isaiah 15:3 In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly. Isaiah 22:18 And thy coverer covering, wrapping round, Wrappeth thee round, O babbler, On a land broad of sides -- there thou diest, And there the chariots of thine honour 'Are' the shame of the house of thy lord. Isaiah 30:23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands. Isaiah 33:21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there. Isaiah 40:4 Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley, Isaiah 59:14 And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter. Jeremiah 5:1 Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her. Jeremiah 9:21 For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways. Jeremiah 48:38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah. Jeremiah 49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts. Jeremiah 50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah. Jeremiah 51:58 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary. Lamentations 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lamentations 2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers bosom. Lamentations 4:18 They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. Ezekiel 16:24 That thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place. Ezekiel 16:31 In thy building thine arch at the head of every way, Thy high place thou hast made in every broad place, And -- hast not been as a whore deriding a gift. Ezekiel 40:6 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad. Ezekiel 40:7 Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed. Ezekiel 40:29 and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad. Ezekiel 40:30 There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad. Ezekiel 40:33 and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad. Ezekiel 40:42 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice. Ezekiel 40:43 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. Ezekiel 40:47 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house. Ezekiel 41:1 He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent. Ezekiel 41:7 The side chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house: therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from Ezekiel 41:12 The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. Ezekiel 41:22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh. Ezekiel 42:11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. Ezekiel 42:20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. Ezekiel 43:13 These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. Ezekiel 43:16 The altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it. Ezekiel 43:17 The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east. Ezekiel 45:1 Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all its border all around. Ezekiel 45:3 Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy. Subtopics Related Terms Side-structure (3 Occurrences) Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |
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