אָרֹךְ
ʼârôk · H752 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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long, lengthy
Pertaining to being relatively lengthy in size
ExamplesJob 11:9 “Its measurement is longer than the earth And broader than the sea.
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long, lengthy
Pertaining to being relatively lengthy in duration
Examples2 Samuel 3:1 Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David became steadily stronger, while the house of Saul became steadily weaker.
Jeremiah 29:28 seeing that he has sent word to us in Babylon, saying, ‘The exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce’?”’”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- מַדclothes 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- עָתֵק ʻâthêq · H6276 · enduring, lasting
- Both refer to temporal duration: אָרֹךְ (ʼârôk, H752) denotes what is lasting or enduring, and the other word denotes what is long in time. They overlap in contexts of persistence.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Long002001001039
- אָרֹךְ describes something long in duration or extent, as in the long war between the house of Saul and the house of David.
- Endure002002003001
- The word also covers something enduring over an extended period, as in Jeremiah's warning that the exile would be long and the exiles should settle in for the duration.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H752. arok [אָרֹךְ] adjective long — only feminine singular absolute אֲרֻכָּה; — a. of…
[אָרֹךְ] adjective long — only feminine singular absolute אֲרֻכָּה; —
a. of time, א ׳מִלְחָמָה long war 2Sa 3:1; of the exile Jer 29:28;
b. figurative of God's wisdom ׳א מִדָּהּ מֵאֶרֶץ Job 11:9 (|| מִנִּייָֿם רְחָבָה).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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