Word study
Farthest
9 Hebrew words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “farthest”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “farthest” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- קָצֶה qâtsehend, extremitytranslated this way 3 times of its 88 uses · Strong’s H7097Noun · Translated: end 25, ends 14, edge 9, outskirts 6Full study and all 81 verses →
Deuteronomy 30:4 Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.
Nehemiah 1:9 but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
- קֵץ qêtsendtranslated this way 3 times of its 61 uses · Strong’s H7093Noun · Translated: end 37, after 7, farthest 2, later 2Full study and all 56 verses →
2 Kings 19:23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
Isaiah 37:24 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.
- תּוֹצָאָה tôtsââhoutgoing, extremity, source (?), escapetranslated this way 1 time of its 5 uses · Strong’s H8444Noun · Translated: ended 1, farthest limits 1, rescuer 1, flow 1Full study and all 5 verses →
Joshua 17:18 because the hill country will be yours as well. It is a forest; clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours. Although the Canaanites have iron chariots and although they are strong, you can drive them out.”
- אִי îcoast, regiontranslated this way 1 time of its 36 uses · Strong’s H339Noun · Translated: islands 14, coastlands 8, coasts 4, coastland 3Full study and all 35 verses →
Esther 10:1 Now King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the land, even to its farthest shores.
- כֹּל kôlthe whole, alltranslated this way 1 time of its 5,107 uses · Strong’s H3605Noun · Translated: all 1,589, and all 471, whole 223, every 196Full study and all 4,112 verses →
- רָחוֹק râchôqdistant, fartranslated this way 1 time of its 84 uses · Strong’s H7350Adjective · Translated: far 20, afar 13, distant 11, distance 10Full study and all 84 verses →
Psalm 65:5 With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.
- אַחֲרִית achărîthafter-part, endtranslated this way 1 time of its 61 uses · Strong’s H319Noun · Translated: end 21, future 6, latter 5, come 4Full study and all 60 verses →
Psalm 139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
- אָצִיל âtsîlside, corner, chieftranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s H678Noun · Translated: nobles 1, farthest corners 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Isaiah 41:9 I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.
- יְרֵכָה yerêkâhflank, sidetranslated this way 1 time of its 28 uses · Strong’s H3411Noun · Translated: rear 4, ends 3, far 3, two back 2Full study and all 28 verses →
Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.