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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).

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 BoxGen 6:5 - The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24 - I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me—to Aner, Eshkol and Mamre. Let them have their share.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. 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 harm, just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:40 - You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - So Joseph established it as a law concerning land in Egypt—still in force today—that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. It was only the land of the priests that did not become Pharaoh’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - Moses said to Pharaoh, “I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Moses answered, “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people. Only let Pharaoh be sure that he does not act deceitfully again by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:26 - The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:17 - Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the LORD your God to take this deadly plague away from me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:24 - Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:19 - the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:2 - “Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:19 - The Israelites replied: “We will go along the main road, and if we or our livestock drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We only want to pass through on foot—nothing else.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:28 - Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot—

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - But in accordance with the command of the LORD our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide.[fn] It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:19 - However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6 - Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:9 - Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15 - Yet the LORD set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the LORD your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:16

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:23 - But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26 - But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the LORD will choose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only you fully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:23

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:13 - The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33 - A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:7 - “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:17 - Just as we fully obeyed Moses, so we will obey you. Only 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 rebels against your word and does not obey it, whatever you may command them, will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:15 - On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - The city and all that is in it are to be devoted[fn] to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 - But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:24 - Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the LORD had instructed Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:13 - Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds—except Hazor, which Joshua burned.

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