Lengthening
אַרְכָֿאStrong’s H0754arka (ar-ka)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arka is the Aramaic word usually translated “prolonging”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.”
Meaning
- Prolongation, lengthening, prolonging
How it's translated
- a prolonging 1
- and a prolonging 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
אַרְכָֿא arka · lengthening
prolongation, lengthening, prolonging Aramaic of e.rekh (עֵ֫רֶךְ "valuation" H6187)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lengthening” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LENGTH'ENING, participle present
tense Making longer; extending in length or in duration.
All definitions and other forms of “lengthening”
LENGTH'ENING, noun
Continuation; protraction.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.