To arrange
עָרַךְStrong’s H6186arakh (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;”
Meaning
- To arrange, set or put or lay in order, set in array, prepare, order, ordain, handle, furnish, esteem, equal, direct, compare(Qal)
- (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.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 22:9And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
- Exodus 27:21In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 40:4And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
- Exodus 40:23And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 1:7And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
- Leviticus 1:8And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
All 71 verses, by book
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
- 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.
- 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.