Length
אֹ֫רֶךְStrong’s H0753orekh (o-rekh)
Appears in 90 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Orekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “length”, “length its” and “length of”. It appears in 90 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.”
Meaning
- Lengthphysical length · of time
- Forbearance, self-restraint (of patience)
How it's translated
- length 28
- length its 27
- length of 18
- for length of 3
- and length its 3
- and length 3
- in length of 2
- in the length 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 38
- Exodus 23
- 2 Chronicles 7
- 1 Kings 6
- Psalms 4
- Proverbs 3
12 books in all.
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Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 5:2In contextAnd he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
- Genesis 6:15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Genesis 13:17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
- Exodus 25:10And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
- Exodus 25:17And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
- Exodus 25:23Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
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Hebrew dictionary
אֹ֫רֶךְ orekh · length
1) length 1a) physical length 1b) of time 2) forbearance, self-restraint (of patience)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “length” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LENGTH, noun
- The extent of anything material from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as the length of a church or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.
- Extent; extension.
- A certain extent; a portion of space; with a plural.
- Space of time; duration, indefinitely; as a great length of time.
All definitions and other forms of “length”
- Long duration.
- Reach or extent; as, to pursue a subject to a great length
- Extent; as the length of a discourse, essay, or argument.
- Distance.
- At length at or in the full extent.
- At last; at the end or conclusion.
LENGTH, verb transitive
To extend. [Not used.]
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.