אֹרֶךְ
ʼôrek · o'rek'
length
Lexicon
Derivation: from H748 (אָרַךְ);
length
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [phrase] forever, length, 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 אֹרֶךְ 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
95 occurrences · 95 OT · 0 NT · 44 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the length27 · 29%
- long13 · 14%
- was the length9 · 10%
- shall be the length7 · 7%
- in length6 · 6%
- and the length5 · 5%
- cubits long4 · 4%
- in the length3 · 3%
- length2 · 2%
- and in length2 · 2%
- for ever2 · 2%
- it of: the length1 · 1%
- of the house, the length1 · 1%
- high1 · 1%
- it him, even length1 · 1%
- with long1 · 1%
- for length1 · 1%
- by long1 · 1%
- us so long1 · 1%
- thereof, and the length1 · 1%
- for the length1 · 1%
- as long as1 · 1%
- reeds long1 · 1%
- of length1 · 1%
- all the length1 · 1%
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.