Rashi, on Neh 7:4

“And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the midst thereof, and the houses were not built.”

“a wide place Heb. רַחֲבַת יָדַיִם, a wide and large place.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.