עָרַךְ
ʻârak · aw-rak'
to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: put (set) (the battle, self) in array, compare, direct, equal, esteem, estimate, expert (in war), furnish, handle, join (battle), ordain, (lay, put, reckon up, set) (in) order, prepare, tax, value.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the head, the highest › the open hand that covers
To see and know of the head, the highest of the open hand that covers.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָרַךְ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
75 occurrences · 75 OT · 0 NT · 63 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in array8 · 17%
- in order7 · 15%
- expert3 · 7%
- and put them in array2 · 4%
- shall estimate2 · 4%
- put themselves in array2 · 4%
- shall value2 · 4%
- order2 · 4%
- and put themselves in array2 · 4%
- shall lay1 · 2%
- ordered1 · 2%
- and set in order1 · 2%
- shall order1 · 2%
- shall lay them in order1 · 2%
- that he might put them in array1 · 2%
- had put the battle in array1 · 2%
- where they put themselves in array1 · 2%
- which she had laid in order1 · 2%
- unto him, i have prepared1 · 2%
- value1 · 2%
- he shall order1 · 2%
- set themselves in array1 · 2%
- there, and laid1 · 2%
- and he put1 · 2%
- and they joined1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.