Biblica Analytica
H6186A Hebrew

עָרַךְ

a.rakh

to arrange

Lexicon Entry

Definition
to arrange
Transliteration
a.rakh
Strong's Number
H6186A
Occurrences
69
Semantic Domain
Physical Action

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Supported

# The Hebrew Word עָרַךְ (arak): Arranging and Ordering The Hebrew verb עָרַךְ (arak) carries the fundamental meaning of "to arrange," encompassing the basic human activity of organizing things in order. With 69 occurrences across the biblical text, this word appears frequently enough to indicate its importance in describing everyday and significant actions. The verb captures the idea of putting elements into a deliberate sequence or configuration, whether physical objects, concepts, or preparations. The prevalence of this word in biblical narrative suggests that arrangement and order held conceptual significance for ancient Hebrew speakers. The verb could apply to practical contexts—organizing materials or setting things in place—as well as more abstract situations requiring purposeful ordering. This breadth of application indicates that arak functioned as a foundational term for any action involving systematic arrangement, from the mundane to the ceremonial. While the lexicon data provides only the basic definition without detailed usage examples, the frequency of occurrence across 69 biblical instances suggests the word was essential vocabulary for describing both physical preparation and organizational activities. The simplicity of its core meaning—"to arrange"—combined with its regular use throughout scripture indicates that order and deliberate positioning were concepts woven throughout biblical Hebrew communication.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
H6186A
Lemma
עָרַךְ
Transliteration
a.rakh
Definition
to arrange
Occurrences
69
Model
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Prompt version
1

AI synthesis uses only the lexicon data above as context — never training knowledge.

Occurrences in Scripture

69 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

Job 13:18

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

Job 23:4

I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Job 28:17

Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

Job 28:19

The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, nor will it be valued with pure gold.

Job 32:14

for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

Job 33:5

If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up.

Job 36:19

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

Job 37:19

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

Psalms 5:3

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Psalms 23:5

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Psalms 40:5

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

Psalms 50:21

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Psalms 78:19

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 89:6

For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

Psalms 132:17

I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

Proverbs 9:2

She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.

Isaiah 21:5

They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

Isaiah 30:33

For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Isaiah 40:18

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

Isaiah 44:7

Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

Isaiah 65:11

“But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;

Jeremiah 6:23

They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.”

Jeremiah 46:3

“Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!

Jeremiah 50:9

For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in array against her. She will be taken from there. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man. None of them will return in vain.

Jeremiah 50:14

Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows; for she has sinned against Yahweh.

Jeremiah 50:42

They take up bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

Ezekiel 23:41

and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

Joel 2:5

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.

Genesis 14:8

The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim

Genesis 22:9

They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

Exodus 27:21

In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Exodus 40:4

You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps.

Exodus 40:23

He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Leviticus 1:7

The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire;

Leviticus 1:8

and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;

Leviticus 1:12

He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,

Leviticus 6:12

The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning. He shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.

Leviticus 24:3

Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Leviticus 24:4

He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before Yahweh continually.

Leviticus 24:8

Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Numbers 23:4

God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”

Joshua 2:6

But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

Judges 20:20

The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.

Judges 20:22

The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.

Judges 20:22

The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.

Judges 20:30

The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

Judges 20:33

All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.

1 Samuel 4:2

The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.

1 Samuel 17:2

Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.