Lexical Summary arak: to be long Original Word: אָרַךְTransliteration: arak Phonetic Spelling: (aw-rak') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be long Meaning: to be, long Strong's Concordance defer, tarry long A primitive root; to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively) -- defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-)long, + (out-, over-)live, tarry (long). Brown-Driver-Briggs H748. arak [אָרֵךְ אָרַךְ,] verb be long, almost always of time (Assyrian arâku COTGloss, Aramaic אֲרַךְ, ) — Qal Perfect אָֽרְכוּ Genesis 26:8; Imperfect יַאַרְכוּ Ezekiel 12:22; 3feminine plural וַתֶּאֱרַכְנָה 31:5 (strike out B Co) — be long, subject הַיָמִים (i.e. a long time passed Genesis 26:8 (J); compare Assyrian urriku ûmî, days grew long, Creation Tableta see COT 1:1); of delayed fulfillment of prophecy Ezekiel 12:22; subject מּאֹרֹת 31:5 (but compare above) Hiph`il Perfect הֶאֱרִיךְ Proverbs 19:11; וְהַאֲרַכְתָּ֫ Deuteronomy 22:7, etc.; Imperfect יַאֲרִיךְ 17:20 +; יַאֲרִיכוּ 25:15; יַאֲרִכוּן Exodus 20:12 compare Deuteronomy 5:16; 6:2; תַּאֲרִיכֻן 4:26; 30:18, etc.; Imperative feminine singular הַאֲרִיכִי Isaiah 54:2: Infinitive construct הַאֲרִיךְ Numbers 9:19, 22; Participle מַאֲרִיךְ Ecclesiastes 7:15; 8:12; — 1 transitive prolong, (a) object יָמִים (i.e. live long) Deuteronomy 4:26, 40; 5:30; 11:9; 17:20; 22:7; 30:18; 32:47; Joshua 24:31= Judges 2:7 (with אַחֲרֵי = survive), Proverbs 28:16; Isaiah 53:10; Ecclesiastes 8:13; also (late) without ימים 7:15; 8:12; (b) id. 1 Kings 3:14 ׳י subject אֶתיָֿמֶיךָ וְהַאֲרַכְתִּי I will prolong thy days; (c) postpone anger Isaiah 48:9 compare Proverbs 19:11 (i.e. shew oneself slow to anger); see also Job 6:11 נַפְשִׁי אַאֲרִיךְ i.e. be patient; (d) literal (but in figure) make long furrows (with ל) Psalm 129:3; tentcords Isaiah 54:2; tongue 57:4 (stretch out in mockery). 2 intransitive grow long, continue long (i.e. display length or continuance), subject יָמִים Exodus 20:12 = Deuteronomy 5:16; 6:2; 25:15; tarry long Numbers 9:19, 22 (subject הֶעָנָן), last (continue) long, (subject כֵּן Proverbs 28:2; be long (literally) of staves of ark 1 Kings 8:8; 2 Chronicles 5:9. I. ארך (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew [ אָרַךְ, אָרֵךְ]). |
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