Slow
אָרֵךְStrong’s H0750arekh (a-rekh)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “long of”, “patient of” and “length of”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,”
Meaning
- Long (pinions)
- Patient, slow to anger
How it's translated
- long of 10
- a long of 2
- and a long of 1
- a patient of 1
- to length of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Proverbs 3
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 14:18The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
- Nehemiah 9:17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
- Psalms 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
- Psalms 103:8The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
- Psalms 145:8The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
- Proverbs 14:29He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Hebrew dictionary
אָרֵךְ arekh · slow
1) long (pinions) 2) patient, slow to anger
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLOW, adjective
- Moving a small distance in a long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; as a slow stream; a slow motion.
- Late; not happening in short time.
- Not ready; not prompt or quick; as slow of speech, and slow of tongue. Exodus 4:10
- Dull; in active; tardy.
All definitions and other forms of “slow”
- Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation. Proverbs 14:29
- Dull; heavy in wit.
- Behind in time; indicating a time later than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow
- Not advancing, growing or improving rapidly; as the slow growth of arts and sciences.
SLOW, noun
A moth. [Not in use.]
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.