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# עֵרֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6187

**order** — used 33 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

order [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6187/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵ֫רֶךְ: n.m. order, row, estimate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6187/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 27; 25 order, row, estimate;—cstr. ע׳ Ju 17:10; Ex 40:23; sf. עֶרְכִּי ψ 55:14, עֶרְכְּךָ Lv 5:15 +, etc.;— order, row, ע׳ בְּגָדִים Ju 17:10 a (complete) suit of clothes (laid out in order), 𝔊B στολὴν ἱματίων; ע׳ לֶחֶם Ex 40:23 i.e. loaves arranged in a row, so ע׳ alone v 4 (P); עֶרְכּוֹ Jb 41:4 his symmetry (v. חִין sub חנן). estimate, valuation, made by ordering, classifying: אִישׁ כְּעֶרְכּוֹ 2 K 23:35; in 12:5 read עֵרֶךְ (for MT עוֹבֵר) money of a man’s valuation 𝔊 Benz Kit, and prob. del. כֶּסֶף נַפְשׁוֹת עֶרְכּוֹ (? כ׳ עֶרֶךְ נ׳ Kit) as gloss (StaZAW v (1885), 288 f.); כְּעֶרְכִּי ψ 55:14 a man according to my valuation, fig. for my equal; elsewhere P, of priest’s valuation of trespass-offering Lv 5:15, 18, 25, vows, and redemption-money 27:2, 3(×2), 4 + 17 times 27 (כֶּסֶף עֶרְכְּךָ v 15, 19, מִכְסַת הָעֶרְכְּךָ v 23 \[del. הָ\], cf. v 23b \[del. id.\]), Nu 18:16.—Jb 28:13 read דַּרְכָּהּ 𝔊 Di al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: valuation (22); to (4); your valuation (2).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 27:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.4/#tree)

וְאִם־נְקֵבָ֖ה הִ֑וא וְהָיָ֥ה עֶרְכְּךָ֖ שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים שָֽׁקֶל׃

*Word for word:* and if \[is\].female she and it.will.be valuation your thirty shekel\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.

[Psalms 55:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.14/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֣ה אֱנ֣וֹשׁ כְּעֶרְכִּ֑י אַ֝לּוּפִ֗י וּמְיֻדָּֽעִי׃

*Word for word:* and you a.man according to my.value friend my.close and acquaintance my

*JPS 1917:* But it was thou, a man mine equal, my companion, and my familiar friend;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6187.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6187/): 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).