Caravan
אֹרְחָהStrong’s H0736orechah (o-re-chah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Orechah is the Hebrew word usually translated “caravan of” and “o caravans of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.”
Meaning
- Caravan, travelling company
How it's translated
- a caravan of 1
- o caravans of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֹרְחָה orechah · caravan
caravan, travelling company
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “caravan” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CARAVAN, noun
A company of travellers, pilgrims or merchants, marching or proceeding in a body over the deserts of Arabia, or other region infested with robbers.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.