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Lexicon :: Strong's H7535 - raq

Aa
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).

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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 BoxGen 6:5 - And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24 - Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:29 - That you will do us no damage, even as we put no hand on you, and did you nothing but good, and sent you away in peace: and now the blessing of the Lord is on you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:40 - You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only he did not take the land of the priests, for the priests had their food given them by Pharaoh, and having what Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give up their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - Then Joseph made a law which is in force to this day, that Pharaoh was to have the fifth part; only the land of the priests did not become his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - And Moses said, I will let you have the honour of saying when I am to make prayer for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs may be sent away from you and your houses, and be only in the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:11 - And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people and will be only in the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to the Lord your God in the waste land; but do not go very far away, and make prayer for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making their offering to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:26 - Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no ice-storm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:17 - Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:24 - Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship to the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept here: your little ones may go with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:19 - If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:2 - And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:19 - And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway: and if we or our cattle take of your water, we will give you a price for it: only let us go through on our feet, nothing more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:28 - Let me have food, at a price, for my needs, and water for drinking: only let me go through on foot;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - But you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, that is, all the side of the river Jabbok or the towns of the hill-country, wherever the Lord our God had said we were not to go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:19 - But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6 - So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:9 - Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15 - But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:16 - But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23 - But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26 - But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:23 - Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till it is taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:13 - The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I give you today, to keep and to do them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33 - The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:7 - Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:17 - As we gave attention to Moses in all things, so we will give attention to you: and may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:18 - Whoever goes against your orders, and does not give attention to all your words, will be put to death: only take heart and be strong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:15 - Then on the seventh day they got up early, at the dawn of the day, and went round the town in the same way, but that day they went round it seven times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 - And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24 - Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - As for the towns made on hills of earth, not one was burned by Israel but Hazor, which was burned by Joshua.

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