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מַעֲרֶ֫כֶתStrong’s H4635

maarekhet (ma-a-re-khet)

Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Maarekhet is the Hebrew word usually translated “row”, “row of” and “rows”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.

“And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.”
Leviticus 24:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. Row, line
How it's translated
  • the row 7
  • and row of 2
  • rows 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Chronicles 3
  • 2 Chronicles 3
  • Leviticus 2
  • Nehemiah 1

4 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מַעֲרֶ֫כֶת maarekhet · row

row, line

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “row” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

ROW, noun

    All definitions and other forms of “row”

      ROW, verb transitive

      [Gr. to row an oar. If the noun is the primary word, ruder and rother, an oar, may be from the root of rod, Latin radius, or from the root of rado, to rub, grate, sweep. If the verb is the primary word, the sense is to sweep, to urge, drive, impel. See Rudder.]

      1. To impel, as a boat or vessel along the surface of water by oars; as, to row a boat.
      2. To transport by rowing; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

      ROW, verb intransitive

      To labor with the oar; as, to row well; to row with oars muffled.

        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.