arach · arrange, set in order

What it means

arach (עָרַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “arrange, set in order”.

Set in order, arrange; draw up troops for battle; compare.

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 set things in a row and in order, like bread on the table.
2. To set soldiers in lines, ready for battle.
3. To set out the facts of a case one by one, or place one thing beside another.
4. To fix the price or value of something or someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To arrange, set in order: to put each thing in its place, whether the wood of the altar, the bread, words or an army for battle; also to value, set a price. BDB: to set in a row, arrange in order; from there to set the battle in array, compare, estimate, value. Of the same root is עֵרֶךְ, “valuation”.

• Drawing up for battle Genesis 14:81 Samuel 17:8
• Arranging the wood and what goes on the altar Genesis 22:9Leviticus 1:7
• Setting the table and the bread in order Exodus 40:4Leviticus 24:8
• “You lay out before me a table” Psalms 23:5
• Valuing in a vow; setting words in order Leviticus 27:8Job 33:5

How we translate it

“Set” 19 times, “drew up” 16 (“drew up battle lines”, Genesis 14:8), “shall arrange” 5 (“arrange wood on the fire”, Leviticus 1:7), “shall value” 4, “arranged” 2. In Leviticus 27 the priest “shall value” what is vowed, and the related noun is “valuation” (Leviticus 27:8).

How it is translated

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

• set ×19
• drew up ×16
• shall arrange ×5
• shall value ×4
• drew them up ×3
• ready ×3
• arrange ×2
• arranged ×2
• arrayed ×2
• compare ×2
• others ×18

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×12
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×5
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×5
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×10
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×9
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×1
• Joel×1

• Genesis 14:8

  Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and drew up battle lines against them in the Valley of Siddim,

• Genesis 22:9

  They came to the place that Elohim had told him, and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

• Exodus 27:21

  In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set it in order from evening to morning before YHWH. It is a statute forever throughout their generations on the part of the sons of Israel.

• Exodus 40:4

  And you shall bring in the table and set in order what belongs on it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

• Exodus 40:23

  and he set in order on it an arrangement of bread before YHWH, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 1:7

  The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

• Leviticus 1:8

  The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall arrange the pieces, the head and the suet, on the wood that is on the fire that is on the altar.

• Leviticus 1:12

  He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its suet, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is on the fire that is on the altar.

• Leviticus 6:12

  The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, arrange the burnt offering on it, and offer up in smoke on it the fat of the peace offerings.

• Leviticus 24:3

  Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before YHWH continually; it is a statute forever throughout your generations.

• Leviticus 24:4

  On the pure lampstand he shall arrange the lamps before YHWH continually.

• Leviticus 24:8

  Every Sabbath day he shall arrange it before YHWH continually, from the sons of Israel, as an eternal covenant.

• Leviticus 27:8

  But if he is too poor for the valuation, he shall set him before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to what the hand of the one who vowed can afford, the priest shall value him.

• Leviticus 27:12

  and the priest shall value it, whether good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be.

• Leviticus 27:14

  And when a man consecrates his house as holy to YHWH, the priest shall value it, whether good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

• Numbers 23:4

  And Elohim met Balaam, and he said to him, “The seven altars I have set in order, and I have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”

• Joshua 2:6

  But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof.

• Judges 20:20

  And the men of Israel went out to war with Benjamin, and the men of Israel drew up for war against them at Gibeah.

• Judges 20:22

  But the people, the men of Israel, strengthened themselves and again drew up for war in the place where they had drawn up on the first day.

• Judges 20:30

  And the sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day and drew up against Gibeah as at other times.

• Judges 20:33

  And all the men of Israel rose up from their place and drew up at Baal-tamar, and the ambush of Israel burst out from its place, from the clearing of Geba.

• 1 Samuel 4:2

  And the Philistines drew up their lines to meet Israel, and the war spread out, and Israel was struck down before the Philistines, who struck in the battle line in the field about four thousand men.

• 1 Samuel 17:2

  Saul and the men of Israel gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up for war to meet the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 17:8

  He stood and called to the battle lines of Israel and said to them, “Why do you come out to draw up for war? Am I not the Philistine, and you servants of Saul? Choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me.

• 1 Samuel 17:21

  Israel and the Philistines drew up, battle line against battle line.

• 2 Samuel 10:8

  The sons of Ammon came out and drew up for battle at the entrance of the gate; and Aram of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the field.

• 2 Samuel 10:9

  When Joab saw that the battle front was against him before and behind, he chose from all the chosen men of Israel and drew them up against Aram.

• 2 Samuel 10:10

  And the rest of the people he put in the hand of Abishai his brother, and he drew them up against the sons of Ammon.

• 2 Samuel 10:17

  When it was reported to David, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. Aram drew up against David and fought with him.

• 2 Samuel 23:5

  For is not my house so with El? For an eternal covenant he has set for me, ordered in all things and secured. For all my salvation and all my delight, will he not make them sprout?

• 1 Kings 18:33

  He arranged the wood, cut in pieces the bull, and laid it on the wood.

• 2 Kings 23:35

  The silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh; but he assessed the land to give the silver according to the order of Pharaoh; from each according to his assessment he exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

• 1 Chronicles 12:8

  From the Gadites there separated themselves and went to David, to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty warriors, men of the army for war, who handled shield and spear; their faces were the faces of a lion, and they were like gazelles on the mountains in swiftness.

• 1 Chronicles 12:33

  of Zebulun, those going out to the army, ready for war with all the weapons of war, fifty thousand, and to form ranks without duplicity of heart;

• 1 Chronicles 12:35

  and of the Danites, ready for war, twenty-eight thousand six hundred;

• 1 Chronicles 12:36

  and of Asher, those going out to the army, to get ready for war, forty thousand;

• 1 Chronicles 12:38

  All these, men of war, drawn up in battle order, came with a whole heart to Hebron to make David king over all Israel; and also all the rest of Israel was of one heart to make David king.

• 1 Chronicles 19:9

  The sons of Ammon came out and drew up for battle at the entrance of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

• 1 Chronicles 19:10

  When Joab saw that the battle front was against him before and behind, he chose from all the chosen men in Israel and drew them up against Aram.

• 1 Chronicles 19:11

  And the rest of the people he put in the hand of Abishai his brother, and they drew up against the sons of Ammon.

And 36 more times.