Lengthening
אַרְכָֿאStrong’s H6187arka (ar-ka)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arka is the Hebrew word usually translated “valuation your”, “valuation of your” and “arrangement its”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Prolongation, lengthening, prolonging
How it's translated
- valuation your 11
- by valuation your 6
- valuation of your 3
- arrangement its 2
- an arrangement of 1
- by valuation of your 1
- for valuation your 1
- according to valuation of your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 20
- Exodus 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Job 2
- Numbers 1
- Judges 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 40:23And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 5:15If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
- Leviticus 5:18And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 6:6And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
- Leviticus 27:2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.
- Leviticus 27:3And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.