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# אֹרֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H753

**length** — used 95 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

length [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/753/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֹ֫רֶךְ: length [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/753/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] length—only sg., א׳ abs. Ex 27:1 +; cstr. Gn 6:15; אָרְכּוֹ Ex 25:10 +; אָרְכָּם 2 Ch 3:11; אָרְכָּן Ez 42:11, etc.— length of ark Gn 6:15 (P), of land of Canaan 13:17 (J); most often of ark & other measurements in tabernacle & temple Ex 25:10, 17; 26:2, 8; 27:1, 9 + (22 times Ex, P), 1 K 6:2, 3, 20 + (13 times K & Ch), Ez 40:7, 11, 18 + (41 times Ez), etc. of time א׳ יָמִים Dt 30:20; Jb 12:12; ψ 21:5; 23:6; 91:16; 93:5 Pr 3:2, 16; La 5:20. א׳ אַפַּיִם forbearance, self-restraint, Pr 25:15.—(Ez 31:7 𝔊 𝔖 Co read רֹב for אֹרֶךְ, cf. v 5 where Co del. vb. ארך; 41:22 read prob. אדנו 𝔊 Sm, or אדניו Co = base.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: length (55); \[the\] length (19); the length (18).

## In the verses

[Job 12:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.12/#tree)

בִּֽישִׁישִׁ֥ים חָכְמָ֑ה וְאֹ֖רֶךְ יָמִ֣ים תְּבוּנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].with aged.\[people\] wisdom and \[is.with\].length of.days understanding

*JPS 1917:* Is wisdom with aged men, and understanding in length of days? —

[Exodus 28:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.16/#tree)

רָב֥וּעַ יִֽהְיֶ֖ה כָּפ֑וּל זֶ֥רֶת אָרְכּ֖וֹ וְזֶ֥רֶת רָחְבּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* square it.will.be folded.double \[will.be\].a.span length its and \[will.be\].a.span breadth its

*JPS 1917:* Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/753.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/753/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).