mer.chav denotes an open, spacious setting, whether one is brought there, set there, pastured there, or lands are traversed.

The attested usage points to an open, spacious place or expanse: people are brought or set there in rescue and response to distress, Israel is pastured there, and a plural construct form describes expanses of land entered to seize dwellings. In two supplied verses, the noun is present but its specific contribution is not isolated by the translation.

1. Open or spacious place and expanse · dominant

   The singular absolute noun occurs where someone is brought out into a spacious place in 2 Samuel 22:20, where the LORD sets the caller in a broad place in Psalm 118:5, and where Israel is pastured in a broad place in Hosea 4:16. The plural construct form in Habakkuk 1:6 is joined to “of the land,” and the APB renders the clause “goes to the broad places of the land”; the same singular form is also present in Psalm 18:20 and Psalm 31:9, though the supplied APB renderings do not isolate its contribution there.

   2 Samuel 22:20Habakkuk 1:6Hosea 4:16Psalm 118:5Psalm 18:20Psalm 31:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: Where the clause makes the contribution visible, the APB uses “spacious place,” “broad place,” and “broad places of the land.” Its renderings in Psalm 18:20 and Psalm 31:9 do not identify a corresponding English expression for the noun.