אָרֵךְ
ʼârêk · aw-rake'
long
Lexicon
Derivation: from H748 (אָרַךְ);
long
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: long(-suffering, -winged), patient, slow (to anger).
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 אָרֵךְ 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 7 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- slow5 · 33%
- longsuffering2 · 13%
- he that is slow2 · 13%
- is longsuffering1 · 7%
- but he that is slow1 · 7%
- thereof: and the patient1 · 7%
- in thy longsuffering1 · 7%
- longwinged1 · 7%
- is slow1 · 7%
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.