maaracha · row, order

What it means

maaracha (מַעֲרָכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “row, order”.

A row, a line of things set in order; also a battle line.

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. An army drawn up in battle order, ready to fight.
2. Things set in a row, arranged one beside another.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• battle line ×9
• battle lines ×7
• battle order ×1
• proper order ×1
• rows ×1
• set in order ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×16
• 1 Chronicles×1

• Exodus 39:37

  the pure lampstand, its lamps, the lamps set in order, and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;

• Leviticus 24:6

  And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure table before YHWH.

• Judges 6:26

  Then build an altar to YHWH your Elohim on the top of this stronghold, in the proper order; and take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you cut down.”

• 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 4:12

  And a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh that day, with his clothes torn and earth on his head.

• 1 Samuel 4:16

  And the man said to Eli, “I am the one who has come from the battle line; I fled from the battle line today.” And he said, “How did the matter go, my son?”

• 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 17:10

  The Philistine said, “I reproach the battle lines of Israel this day. Give me a man, and let us fight together.”

• 1 Samuel 17:20

  David rose early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment as the army that was going out to the battle line was shouting for war.

• 1 Samuel 17:21

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

• 1 Samuel 17:22

  David left the baggage that was on him in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the battle line, and came and asked his brothers about their welfare.

• 1 Samuel 17:23

  As he was speaking with them, look, the champion was coming up —Goliath the Philistine was his name, of Gath— from the battle lines of the Philistines, and he spoke according to these words; and David heard.

• 1 Samuel 17:26

  David said to the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who strikes that Philistine and removes the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should reproach the battle lines of the living Elohim?”

• 1 Samuel 17:36

  Both the lion and the bear your servant has struck; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has reproached the battle lines of the living Elohim.”

• 1 Samuel 17:45

  David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword and with spear and with javelin; but I come to you in the name of YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of the battle lines of Israel, whom you have reproached.

• 1 Samuel 17:48

  And it came about, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran to the battle line to meet the Philistine.

• 1 Samuel 23:3

  David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more if we go to Keilah, against the battle lines of the Philistines!”

• 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.

And 2 more times.