erech · arrangement, valuation

What it means

erech (עֵרֶךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “arrangement, valuation”.

What is set in order: a row, an arranged set (of bread, of lamps), equipment. Also the value at which something is assessed.

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. Things set in their place, in order.
2. The price fixed for something or someone, according to the law.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• valuation ×25
• arrangement ×1
• assessment ×1
• bearing ×1
• own worth ×1
• set ×1
• value ×1
• values it ×1
• what belongs on it ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×24
• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×1

• 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 5:15

  “When a person acts unfaithfully and sins inadvertently in regard to the holy things of YHWH, he shall bring his guilt offering to YHWH, a ram without defect from the flock, by your valuation in shekels of silver, by the shekel of the sanctuary, as a guilt offering.

• Leviticus 5:18

  He shall bring a ram without defect from the flock, by your valuation, as a guilt offering, to the priest, and the priest shall make expiation for him for his inadvertence in which he erred without knowing it, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 6:6

  And his guilt offering he shall bring to YHWH, a ram without defect from the flock, by your valuation, as a guilt offering, to the priest.

• Leviticus 27:2

  “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When a man makes a special vow to YHWH according to the valuation of persons,

• Leviticus 27:3

  the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be a valuation of fifty shekels of silver, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 27:4

  And if it is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.

• Leviticus 27:5

  And if from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation of the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

• Leviticus 27:6

  And if from a month old up to five years old, the valuation of the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

• Leviticus 27:7

  And if from sixty years old and upward, if a male, the valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

• 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 27:13

  And if he does wish to redeem it, he shall add a fifth of it to its valuation.

• Leviticus 27:15

  And if the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he shall add a fifth of the silver of its valuation to it, and it shall be his.

• Leviticus 27:16

  And if a man consecrates to YHWH part of the field of his possession, the valuation shall be according to its seed: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

• Leviticus 27:17

  If he consecrates his field from the year of jubilee, it shall stand according to the valuation.

• Leviticus 27:18

  But if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest shall calculate for him the silver according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and it shall be deducted from the valuation.

• Leviticus 27:19

  And if the one who consecrates the field does redeem it, he shall add a fifth of the silver of its valuation to it, and it shall stand for him.

• Leviticus 27:23

  then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of the valuation until the year of jubilee, and he shall give the valuation on that day, as holy to YHWH.

• Leviticus 27:25

  And every valuation shall be by the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

• Leviticus 27:27

  And if it is among the unclean beasts, he shall ransom it according to its valuation and add a fifth of it to it; and if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold according to its valuation.

• Numbers 18:16

  And their redemption price: from a month old you shall redeem them, at your valuation, for silver, five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

• Judges 17:10

  And Micah said to him, “Stay with me and be for me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver a year, and a set of clothes, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went.

• 2 Kings 12:4

  Joash said to the priests, “All the silver of the holy things that is brought into the house of YHWH, the silver of the one who passes the census, the silver of the persons according to the valuation of each one, all the silver that it comes up in anyone’s heart to bring into the house of YHWH,

• 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.

• Job 28:13

  The mortal does not know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.

• Job 41:12

  I will not keep silent about its limbs, or the account of its powers, or the grace of its bearing.

• Psalms 55:13

  but you, a mortal of my own worth, my companion and my acquaintance,

And 4 more times.