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Lexicon :: Strong's H7535 - raq

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רַק
Transliteration
raq
Pronunciation
rak
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as רַק (H7534) as a noun
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TWOT Reference: 2218a

Strong’s Definitions

רַק raq, rak; the same as H7534 as a noun; properly, leanness, i.e. (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although:—but, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless, nothing but, notwithstanding, only, save, so (that), surely, yet (so), in any wise.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H7535 in the following manner: only, surely, nothing but, except, but, in any wise.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H7535 in the following manner: only, surely, nothing but, except, but, in any wise.

  1. only, altogether, surely

    1. only

    2. only, nought but, altogether (in limitation)

    3. save, except (after a negative)

    4. only, altogether, surely (with an affirmative)

    5. if only, provided only (prefixed for emphasis)

    6. only, exclusively (for emphasis)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רַק raq, rak; the same as H7534 as a noun; properly, leanness, i.e. (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although:—but, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless, nothing but, notwithstanding, only, save, so (that), surely, yet (so), in any wise.
STRONGS H7535: Abbreviations
רַק
† 1. see H7534.
2. 109 adverb with restrictive force, only, altogether, surely (synonym אַךְ); —
a. only, Genesis 14:24; Genesis 41:40 מִמֶּךָּ אֶגְדַּל הַכִּסֵּא רַק only as regards the throne, etc., Genesis 47:22רַק אַדְמַת הַכֹּהֲנִים לֹא קָנָה, Genesis 50:8; Exodus 8:5 רַק בַּיְאֹר תִּשָּׁאַרְנָה, Exodus 10:17 וְיָסֵר מֵעָלַי רַק הַמָּוֶת הַזֶּה only this death, Deuteronomy 2:35 (compare Deuteronomy 20:14; Joshua 8:2, Joshua 8:27), Joshua 3:11; Judges 6:39 (compare אַךְ ib. Genesis 18:32; Exodus 10:17), Exodus 11:34 (circumstantial clause) רַק הִיא יְחִידָה (there being) only she, an only one, 1 Samuel 1:13; Amos 3:2 רק אתכם ידעתי only you have I known, etc., Job 1:15, Job 1:16, Job 1:17, Job 1:19 וָאִמָּֽלְטָה רַק אֲנִי לְבַדִּי I only, Psalm 91:8+ often. Once strengthening אַךְ, † Numbers 12:2 הֲרַק אַךְבְּֿמשֶׁה דִּבֶּר י׳. And separated (as sometimes in English) from the word actually emphasized, Proverbs 13:10 רִק בְּזָדוֺן יִתֵּן מַצָּה by pride there only cometh [נָתַן 1z] contention.
b. prefixed to sentences, to add a limitation on something previously expressed (or implied), Genesis 19:8 only to these men do nothing, Genesis 24:8 אֶת־בְּנִי רַק הֵ֫נָּה לֹא־תָשֵׁב, Exodus 8:24 I will let you go..., only go not far, Exodus 8:25 [H7537Exodus 8:29]; Numbers 20:19 only — it is nothing — let me pass through on my feet (compare Deuteronomy 2:28); especially in Deuteronomic writers, as Deuteronomy 10:15; Deuteronomy 12:15; Deuteronomy 20:16; 1 Kings 3:2, 1 Kings 3:3 (compare 2 Kings 12:4 [2 Kings 12:3]; 2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:4, 2 Kings 15:35), 2 Kings 8:19; 2 Kings 11:13; 2 Kings 15:14, 2 Kings 15:23; 2 Kings 3:2 (compare 2 Kings 14:3; 2 Kings 17:2), etc., Isaiah 4:1; emphasizing a command, Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:23; Joshua 1:7, Joshua 1:18; Joshua 6:18; Joshua 13:6; Joshua 22:5 (all D2).
c. emphasizing single words, especially adjectives, only = nought but, altogether, Genesis 6:5 רַע רַק לִבּוֹ מַחְשְׁבוֹתיֵצֶר is only evil, i.e. exclusively evil, nought but evil, Genesis 26:29 טוֹב רַק עִמְּךָ עָשִׂינוּ nothing but good, H7533Deuteronomy 28:33 עָשׁוּק רַק וְהָיִיתָ, Isaiah 28:19 זְוָעָה רַק it shall be nought but terror to, etc., 1 Kings 14:8 (compare אַךְ 2b β); followed by an adverb Deuteronomy 28:13 וְהָיִיתָ רִק לְמַ֫עְלָה above only; followed by a verb, Judges 14:16 thou dost but hate me.
† d. after a negative, save, except (synonym כִּי אִם 2a), 1 Kings 8:9 (= 2 Chronicles 5:10) אֵין בָּאָרוֺן רִק שְׁנֵי לֻהוֺת הָאֲבָנִים, 1 Kings 15:5; 1 Kings 22:16 (= 2 Chronicles 18:15), 2 Kings 17:18.
† e. with an affirmative, asseverative force, only, altogether = surely, Genesis 20:11 רַק אֵין יִרְאַת אלהים במקום הזה, Deuteronomy 4:6 (so EV; but Ges populus mere sapiens, so Di), 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Chronicles 28:10; Psalm 32:6 אליו רבים מים לְשֶׁטֶף רַק יַגִּ֑יעוּ לא.
† f. אִם רַק (רַק prefixed for emphasis) if only, provided only, Deuteronomy 15:5 וג׳, תשׁמע שׁמוע אִם רַק, 1 Kings 8:25 (= 2 Chronicles 6:16) דרכם בניך ישׁמרו אִם רַק וג׳ללכת, 2 Kings 21:8 (= 2 Chronicles 33:8).

See top portion of this BDB entry H7534.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:5; 14:24; 18:32; 19:8; 20:11; 24:8; 26:29; 41:40; 47:22; 50:8

Exodus

8:5; 8:24; 8:29; 10:17; 10:17

Numbers

12:2; 20:19

Deuteronomy

2:28; 2:35; 4:6; 4:9; 10:15; 12:15; 12:16; 12:23; 15:5; 20:14; 20:16; 28:13; 28:33

Joshua

1:7; 1:18; 3:11; 6:18; 8:2; 8:27; 13:6; 22:5

Judges

6:39; 14:16

1 Samuel

1:13

1 Kings

3:2; 3:3; 8:9; 8:25; 14:8; 15:5; 21:25; 22:16

2 Kings

3:2; 8:19; 11:13; 12:3; 14:3; 14:4; 15:4; 15:14; 15:23; 15:35; 17:2; 17:18; 21:8

2 Chronicles

5:10; 6:16; 18:15; 28:10; 33:8

Job

1:15; 1:16; 1:17; 1:19

Psalms

32:6; 91:8

Proverbs

13:10

Isaiah

4:1; 28:19

Amos

3:2

H7535

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Strong's Number H7535 matches the Hebrew רַק (raq),
which occurs 109 times in 107 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 6:5–Jos 11:13)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:5 - The LORD observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24 - I will accept only what my young warriors have already eaten, and I request that you give a fair share of the goods to my allies—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - Look, I have two virgin daughters. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them as you wish. But please, leave these men alone, for they are my guests and are under my protection.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘This is a godless place. They will want my wife and will kill me to get her.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - If she is unwilling to come back with you, then you are free from this oath of mine. But under no circumstances are you to take my son there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:29 - Swear that you will not harm us, just as we have never troubled you. We have always treated you well, and we sent you away from us in peace. And now look how the LORD has blessed you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:40 - You will be in charge of my court, and all my people will take orders from you. Only I, sitting on my throne, will have a rank higher than yours.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - The only land he did not buy was the land belonging to the priests. They received an allotment of food directly from Pharaoh, so they didn’t need to sell their land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - Joseph then issued a decree still in effect in the land of Egypt, that Pharaoh should receive one-fifth of all the crops grown on his land. Only the land belonging to the priests was not given to Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households. But they left their little children and flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - “You set the time!” Moses replied. “Tell me when you want me to pray for you, your officials, and your people. Then you and your houses will be rid of the frogs. They will remain only in the Nile River.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11 - The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials, and your people. They will remain only in the Nile River.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - “All right, go ahead,” Pharaoh replied. “I will let you go into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God. But don’t go too far away. Now hurry and pray for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Moses answered, “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the swarms of flies will disappear from you and your officials and all your people. But I am warning you, Pharaoh, don’t lie to us again and refuse to let the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:26 - The only place without hail was the region of Goshen, where the people of Israel lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:17 - “Forgive my sin, just this once, and plead with the LORD your God to take away this death from me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:24 - Finally, Pharaoh called for Moses. “Go and worship the LORD,” he said. “But leave your flocks and herds here. You may even take your little ones with you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:19 - If he is later able to walk outside again, even with a crutch, the assailant will not be punished but must compensate his victim for lost wages and provide for his full recovery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:2 - They said, “Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Hasn’t he spoken through us, too?” But the LORD heard them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:19 - The Israelites answered, “We will stay on the main road. If our livestock drink your water, we will pay for it. Just let us pass through your country. That’s all we ask.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:28 - Sell us food to eat and water to drink, and we will pay for it. All we want is permission to pass through your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - We took all the livestock as plunder for ourselves, along with anything of value from the towns we ransacked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - However, we avoided the land of the Ammonites all along the Jabbok River and the towns in the hill country—all the places the LORD our God had commanded us to leave alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (King Og of Bashan was the last survivor of the giant Rephaites. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide.[fn] It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:19 - Your wives, children, and numerous livestock, however, may stay behind in the towns I have given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6 - Obey them completely, and you will display your wisdom and intelligence among the surrounding nations. When they hear all these decrees, they will exclaim, ‘How wise and prudent are the people of this great nation!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:9 - “But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. Do not let these memories escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15 - Yet the LORD chose your ancestors as the objects of his love. And he chose you, their descendants, above all other nations, as is evident today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - “But you may butcher your animals and eat their meat in any town whenever you want. You may freely eat the animals with which the LORD your God blesses you. All of you, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as you now eat gazelle and deer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:16 - But you must not consume the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23 - But never consume the blood, for the blood is the life, and you must not consume the lifeblood with the meat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26 - “Take your sacred gifts and your offerings given to fulfill a vow to the place the LORD chooses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - You will receive this blessing if you are careful to obey all the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:23 - But you must not consume the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - “The king must not build up a large stable of horses for himself or send his people to Egypt to buy horses, for the LORD has told you, ‘You must never return to Egypt.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the plunder from your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - In those towns that the LORD your God is giving you as a special possession, destroy every living thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - You may only cut down trees that you know are not valuable for food. Use them to make the equipment you need to attack the enemy town until it falls.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:13 - If you listen to these commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today, and if you carefully obey them, the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33 - A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:7 - Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:17 - We will obey you just as we obeyed Moses. And may the LORD your God be with you as he was with Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:18 - Anyone who rebels against your orders and does not obey your words and everything you command will be put to death. So be strong and courageous!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:15 - On the seventh day the Israelites got up at dawn and marched around the town as they had done before. But this time they went around the town seven times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - Jericho and everything in it must be completely destroyed[fn] as an offering to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and the others in her house will be spared, for she protected our spies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 - “Do not take any of the things set apart for destruction, or you yourselves will be completely destroyed, and you will bring trouble on the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24 - Then the Israelites burned the town and everything in it. Only the things made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron were kept for the treasury of the LORD’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - You will destroy them as you destroyed Jericho and its king. But this time you may keep the plunder and the livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the town.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Only the livestock and the treasures of the town were not destroyed, for the Israelites kept these as plunder for themselves, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - But the Israelites did not burn any of the towns built on mounds except Hazor, which Joshua burned.

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