orech · length

What it means

orech (אֹרֶךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “length”.

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. Length: "the length and the breadth".
2. A long time: long life; endurance.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Length; in phrases, long duration: “length of days” is a long life. It comes from the verb אָרַךְ, “to be long”. BDB: length; figuratively, duration.

• The length in measurements Exodus 25:10Ezekiel 40:11
• “Along its length and along its width” Genesis 13:17
• “Length of days”: long life Deuteronomy 30:20Psalms 23:6Proverbs 3:2
• “Patience”, slowness to anger Proverbs 25:15

How we translate it

“Length” 85 times, both in measurements (“its length”) and in the phrase “length of days” (Psalm 23:6); “long” 9. In Proverbs 25:15, “By patience”: the Hebrew says “length of nose”, that is, slowness to anger.

How it is translated

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

• length ×85
• long ×9
• patience ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×24
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×6
• 2 Chronicles×7
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×3
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×42
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 6:15

  And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

• Genesis 13:17

  Get up, walk through the land along its length and along its width, for to you I will give it.”

• Exodus 25:10

  They shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 25:17

  You shall make a cover of expiation of pure gold: two cubits and a half its length and a cubit and a half its width.

• Exodus 25:23

  You shall make a table of acacia wood: two cubits its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 26:2

  The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for all the curtains.

• Exodus 26:8

  The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for the eleven curtains.

• Exodus 26:13

  And the cubit on this side and the cubit on that side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the dwelling on this side and on that side to cover it.

• Exodus 26:16

  Ten cubits shall be the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

• Exodus 27:1

  You shall make the altar of acacia wood: five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and three cubits its height.

• Exodus 27:9

  You shall make the courtyard of the dwelling. For the southern side, toward the south, the courtyard shall have hangings of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for the one side,

• Exodus 27:11

  And likewise for the north side, in length, hangings a hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their rods shall be of silver.

• Exodus 27:18

  The length of the courtyard shall be a hundred cubits, the width fifty all along, and the height five cubits, of fine twisted linen, and their bases of bronze.

• Exodus 28:16

  It shall be square and doubled, a span its length and a span its width.

• Exodus 30:2

  A cubit its length and a cubit its width; it shall be square, and two cubits its height; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

• Exodus 36:9

  The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width four cubits for each curtain; one measure for all the curtains.

• Exodus 36:15

  The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain; one measure for the eleven curtains.

• Exodus 36:21

  Ten cubits was the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

• Exodus 37:1

  And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 37:6

  And he made a cover of expiation of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its width.

• Exodus 37:10

  And he made the table of acacia wood; two cubits was its length, and a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 37:25

  And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood; a cubit was its length, and a cubit its width, square, and two cubits its height; of one piece with it were its horns.

• Exodus 38:1

  And he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood; five cubits was its length, and five cubits its width, square, and three cubits its height.

• Exodus 38:18

  And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

• Exodus 39:9

  It was square; doubled they made the breastpiece, a span its length and a span its width, doubled.

• Deuteronomy 3:11

  (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Look, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length and four cubits its width, by the cubit of a man.)

• Deuteronomy 30:20

  loving YHWH your Elohim, listening to his voice, and clinging to him; for he is your life and the length of your days, so that you may live on the land that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

• Judges 3:16

  Ehud made for himself a sword; it had two edges, a cubit in length, and he strapped it under his clothes, on his right thigh.

• 1 Kings 6:2

  And the house that King Solomon built for YHWH — sixty cubits was its length, and twenty its width, and thirty cubits its height.

• 1 Kings 6:3

  And the portico in front of the temple of the house: twenty cubits was its length, along the width of the house; ten cubits was its width in front of the house.

• 1 Kings 6:20

  And the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits its height; and he overlaid it with fine gold; and he overlaid an altar of cedar.

• 1 Kings 7:2

  And he built the house of the Forest of Lebanon: a hundred cubits its length, and fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of pillars of cedar, with beams of cedar on the pillars.

• 1 Kings 7:6

  And the portico of the Pillars he made: fifty cubits its length, and thirty cubits its width; and a portico in front of them, with pillars and a canopy in front of them.

• 1 Kings 7:27

  And he made the ten bases of bronze: four cubits was the length of the one base, and four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.

• 2 Chronicles 3:3

  These are the measures with which Solomon laid the foundations for building the house of Elohim: the length, in cubits of the old measure, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 3:4

  The portico that was at the front, along the length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it inside with pure gold.

• 2 Chronicles 3:8

  He made the house of the Most Holy Place: its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he covered it with good gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

• 2 Chronicles 3:11

  The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits in length: the wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and the other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.

• 2 Chronicles 3:15

  In front of the house he made two pillars thirty and five cubits long, and the capital that was on its top was five cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 4:1

  He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

And 55 more times.