אָרַךְ
ʼârak · aw-rak'
to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-) long, [phrase] (out-, over-) live, tarry (long).
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- 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)
strength, the leader › the head, the highest › the open hand that covers
Strength, the leader of the head, the highest of the open hand that covers.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָרַךְ 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
34 occurrences · 34 OT · 0 NT · 30 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- may be prolonged2 · 7%
- and they drew out2 · 7%
- and it came to pass, when he had been there a long1 · 4%
- may be long1 · 4%
- tarried long1 · 4%
- tarried1 · 4%
- it; ye shall not prolong1 · 4%
- thee, and that thou mayest prolong1 · 4%
- with you, and that ye may prolong1 · 4%
- and that ye may prolong1 · 4%
- to the end that he may prolong1 · 4%
- with thee, and that thou mayest prolong1 · 4%
- may be lengthened1 · 4%
- and that ye shall not prolong1 · 4%
- ye shall prolong1 · 4%
- that overlived1 · 4%
- that outlived1 · 4%
- then i will lengthen1 · 4%
- that i should prolong1 · 4%
- they made long1 · 4%
- deferreth1 · 4%
- thereof shall be prolonged1 · 4%
- shall prolong1 · 4%
- man that prolongeth1 · 4%
- and his days be prolonged1 · 4%
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.