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the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #751 - אֶרֶךְ

Transliteration

ʼErek

Phonetics

eh'-rek

Root Word (Etymology)

from (H748)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Erech = “long”

1) a city 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Ur toward Babylon on the left bank of the Euphrates river

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Genesis 1

NAS (1)

Genesis 1

CSB (1)

Genesis 1

BSB (2)

Genesis 2

ESV (1)

Genesis 1

WEB (1)

Genesis 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

אֶ֫רֶךְ proper name, of a location city in Babylonia (Babylonian Urûk see Dl below) on left bank of Euphrates,approximately 40 miles northwest from Ur (אוּר) toward Babylon; modern Warka; compare Loftus^{CS 152f.} Dl^{Pa 221 f}.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

אֶרֶךְ (“length”), [Erech], pr.n. of a city of Babylonia, Genesis 10:10. Amongst the old interpreters Pseudoj., Targ. Jerus., Jerome, and Ephraem understand Edessa; more correctly Bochart (Phaleg. iv. 16), Areca or Arecca, a city situated on the borders of Babylonia and Susiana (Ammian. xxiii. 21).

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List of Word Forms

וְאֶ֖רֶךְ וארך veErech