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# מַעֲרָכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4634

**row** — used 19 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

row [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4634/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲרָכָה: n.f. row, rank, battle-line 𝔖 [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4634/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. row, rank, battle-line;— מ׳ battle-line 1 S 4:2, 12, 16(×2); וַיָּ֫רָץ הַמּ׳ 17:22 and he ran to the battle-line, so v 28 (on ref. here to Isr.’s line cf. HPS), מ׳ לִקְרַאת מ׳ v 21; עֹדְרֵי מ׳ 1 Ch 12:39 (van d. H. v 38); nearly = battle הַחַיִל הַיֹּצֵא אֶל־הַמּ׳ 1 S 17:20. pl. ranks = army; cstr. מַעַרְכוֹת יִשׂ׳ 1 S 17:10, 45, מַעַרְכֹת יִשׂ׳ v 8; מ׳ אֱלֹהִים חַיִּים v 26, 36; מ׳ פְּלִשְׁתִּים 23:3 and 17:23 Qr, so 𝔊A (v. om. B) 𝔙 𝔗; sg. 𝔊L 𝔖 (\> Kt מערות). נֵרוֹת הַמַּעֲרָכָה Ex 39:37 lamps of the row, i.e. arranged in a row. Ju 6:26.\*

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: line (7); the battle lines (6); battle line (2).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 17:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.21/#tree)

וַתַּעֲרֹ֤ךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים מַעֲרָכָ֖ה לִקְרַ֥את מַעֲרָכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.deployed Israel and.\[the\] Philistines battle.line to meet battle.line

*JPS 1917:* And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

[1 Samuel 17:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.10/#tree)

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔י אֲנִ֗י חֵרַ֛פְתִּי אֶת־מַעַרְכ֥וֹת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה תְּנוּ־לִ֣י אִ֔ישׁ וְנִֽלָּחֲמָ֖ה יָֽחַד׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the Philistine I I.defy (et) the.battle.lines of.Israel the day (the) this give to me a.man so that.we.may.fight together

*JPS 1917:* And the Philistine said: 'I do taunt the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4634.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4634/): 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).