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To arrange

עָרַךְStrong’s H6186

arakh (a-rakh)

Appears in 71 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Arakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “deployed”, “arranged” and “arrange”. It appears in 71 verses of the Old Testament.

“And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;”
Genesis 14:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. To arrange, set or put or lay in order, set in array, prepare, order, ordain, handle, furnish, esteem, equal, direct, compare(Qal)
  2. (Hiphil) to value, tax
How it's translated
  • and they deployed 10
  • and he deployed 5
  • arranged 5
  • and he arranged 3
  • he will arrange 3
  • to deploy 3
  • and they will arrange 2
  • and he will arrange 2

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

Where it's used most
  • Leviticus 10
  • Job 9
  • 1 Chronicles 8
  • Psalms 7
  • 2 Samuel 5
  • Isaiah 5

19 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 71 verses, by book
Genesis 2
14:822:9
Numbers 1
23:4
Joshua 1
2:6
1 Kings 1
18:33
2 Kings 1
23:35
2 Chronicles 2
13:314:10
Proverbs 1
9:2
Ezekiel 1
23:41
Joel 1
2:5
Hebrew dictionary

עָרַךְ arakh · to arrange

1) to arrange, set or put or lay in order, set in array, prepare, order, ordain, handle, furnish, esteem, equal, direct, compare 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to arrange or set or lay in order, arrange, state in order, set forth (a legal case), set in place 1a2) to compare, be comparable

עָרַךְ arakh · to value

(Hiphil) to value, tax

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

ARRANGE, verb intransitive

  1. To put in proper order; to dispose the parts of a whole in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as troops arranged for battle.
  2. To adjust; to settle; to put in order; to prepare; a popular use of the word of very general application.

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.