Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line. 2. (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc. 3. (n.) To separate into parts; to sift. 4. (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species. 5. (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields. 6. (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast. 7. (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent. 8. (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam. 9. (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles. 10. (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank. 11. (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast. 12. (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay. 13. (n.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains. 14. (n.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class. 15. (n.) The step of a ladder; a rung. 16. (n.) A kitchen grate. 17. (n.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove. 18. (n.) A bolting sieve to sift meal. 19. (n.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition. 20. (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture. 21. (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority. 22. (n.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives. 23. (n.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried. 24. (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile. 25. (n.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced. 26. (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart. 27. (v.) See Range of cable, below. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia RANGE ranj: "Range" and "rank" have the same derivation, and in the sense of a "row" (of men, etc.) they were formerly interchangeable. "Range" with this meaning is found in 2 Kings 11:8, 15 the King James Version parallel 2 Chronicles 23:14 (the Revised Version (British and American) "rank"; sedherah, "row"). Hence, "to range" is "to set in a line" (Judith 2:16; 2 Maccabees 12:20, diatasso) or "to move in a line" or, simply, "to roam," whence "a ranging bear" (Proverbs 28:15; shaqaq, "run to and fro"). A cooking "range" is a stove on which pots, etc., can be set in a row, but the kirayim of Leviticus 11:35 is a much more primitive affair, composed, probably, of two plates (kirayim is a dual). In Job 39:8 "range of the mountains" is good modern use, but ythr, should be pointed yathur (not yethur as in Massoretic Text) and connected with tur, "search." So translate. "He searcheth out the mountains as his pasture." Burton Scott Easton

Multi-Version Concordance Range (9 Occurrences) Leviticus 11:35 Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS) Numbers 27:12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. (See NIV) Deuteronomy 32:49 "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession; (See NIV) 1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside. (BBE) Job 16:10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me. (DBY) Job 39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV) Isaiah 32:20 Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass. (See RSV NIV) Zephaniah 2:14 Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams. (See NAS) Zechariah 4:10 Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth through the whole earth." (See NAS RSV NIV)