arach · be long, prolong

What it means

arach (אָרַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be long, prolong”.

Be long, last long; prolong.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To endure a great while; be patient.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• prolong ×8
• may be long ×4
• you may prolong ×4
• prolonged ×3
• lengthen ×2
• lingered ×2
• I should be patient ×1
• grew long ×1
• grow long ×1
• long time ×1
• others ×7

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×11
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×3
• Isaiah×4
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 26:8

  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down through the window and saw, and look, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

• Exodus 20:12

  Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long on the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you.

• Numbers 9:19

  And when the cloud lingered over the dwelling many days, the sons of Israel would keep the charge of YHWH and not set out.

• Numbers 9:22

  Or two days, or a month, or a year, while the cloud lingered over the dwelling, dwelling on it, the sons of Israel would remain camped and not set out; but when it was lifted, they would set out.

• Deuteronomy 4:26

  I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today that you will surely perish quickly from the land to which you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not prolong your days on it, but you will surely be destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 4:40

  Keep his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you today, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may prolong your days on the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you all the days.

• Deuteronomy 5:16

  Honor your father and your mother, as YHWH your Elohim has commanded you, so that your days may be long and so that it may go well with you on the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you.

• Deuteronomy 5:33

  In all the way that YHWH your Elohim has commanded you you shall walk, so that you may live and it may go well with you, and you may prolong your days in the land that you will take possession of.

• Deuteronomy 6:2

  so that you may fear YHWH your Elohim, keeping all his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you, you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life, and so that your days may be long.

• Deuteronomy 11:9

  and so that you may prolong your days on the land that YHWH swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

• Deuteronomy 17:20

  so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and so that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, in order that he may prolong his days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 22:7

  You shall surely send away the mother, and the young you may take for yourself, so that it may go well with you and you may prolong your days.

• Deuteronomy 25:15

  A full and just weight you shall have; a full and just ephah you shall have; so that your days may be long on the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you.

• Deuteronomy 30:18

  I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you will not prolong your days on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter there to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 32:47

  For it is not an empty word for you; rather it is your life, and by this word you will prolong your days on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there and possess it.”

• Joshua 24:31

  And Israel served YHWH all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who prolonged their days after Joshua and who knew all the work of YHWH that he had done for Israel.

• Judges 2:7

  The people served YHWH all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who prolonged their days after Joshua, who had seen all the great work of YHWH that he had done for Israel.

• 1 Kings 3:14

  And if you walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David your father walked, then I will prolong your days.”

• 1 Kings 8:8

  And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen outside; and they are there to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 5:9

  The poles were long, so that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark, in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen outside; and it has been there to this day.

• Job 6:11

  What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

• Psalms 129:3

  On my back plowers plowed; they made long their furrows.

• Proverbs 19:11

  The prudence of a man makes him slow to anger, and his beauty is to pass over a transgression.

• Proverbs 28:2

  Because of the transgression of a land many are its princes, but with a man who understands and knows, so its stability is prolonged.

• Proverbs 28:16

  A prince lacking insight is also great in oppressions; whoever hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

• Ecclesiastes 7:15

  Everything I have seen in the days of my vapor: there is a righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man prolonging his days in his evil.

• Ecclesiastes 8:12

  Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his days, yet also I know that it will be well with those who fear Elohim, who fear before him;

• Ecclesiastes 8:13

  but it will not be well with the wicked, and he will not prolong his days like the shadow, because he does not fear before Elohim.

• Isaiah 48:9

  For the sake of my name I lengthen my anger, and for my praise I hold back for you, so as not to cut you off.

• Isaiah 53:10

  And YHWH was pleased to crush him; he made him sick. If he makes his soul a guilt offering, he will see offspring, he will prolong days, and the desire of YHWH will prosper in his hand.

• Isaiah 54:2

  “Enlarge the place of your tent, and the curtains of your dwellings let them stretch out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords, and your stakes strengthen.

• Isaiah 57:4

  Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open wide the mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood,

• Ezekiel 12:22

  “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have concerning the ground of Israel, saying, ‘The days grow long, and every vision perishes’?

• Ezekiel 31:5

  Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its boughs multiplied, and its foliage grew long from many waters as it spread out.