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רָחָב

ra.chav

Rahab

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Strong’s H7343Proper name, a person5 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

rahab4

was rahab1

In the text

Joshua 2:1רָחָב
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

רָחָב n.pr.f. harlot in Jericho

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.