# אָרַךְ (arakh)

Israeli respelling: a-rakh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H748. 34 Old Testament occurrences.

to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)

King James renderings: defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-) long, [phrase] (out-, over-) live, tarry (long).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/arakh-h748

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 26:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/8) — And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behol…
- [Exodus 20:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/20/12) — Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- [Numbers 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/19) — And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
- [Numbers 9:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/22) — Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel a…
- [Deuteronomy 4:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/26) — I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to…
- [Deuteronomy 4:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/40) — Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy ch…
- [Deuteronomy 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/5/16) — Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with the…
- [Deuteronomy 5:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/5/33) — Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye m…
- [Deuteronomy 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/2) — That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy s…
- [Deuteronomy 11:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/9) — And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that flow…
- [Deuteronomy 17:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/17/20) — That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to…
- [Deuteronomy 22:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/7) — But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
- [Deuteronomy 25:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/25/15) — But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land whic…
- [Deuteronomy 30:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/30/18) — I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over…
- [Deuteronomy 32:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/47) — For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go o…
- [Joshua 24:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/31) — And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works…
- [Judges 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/2/7) — And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work…
- [1 Kings 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/3/14) — And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
- [1 Kings 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/8) — And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without…
- [2 Chronicles 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/5/9) — And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen witho…
- [Job 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/11) — What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
- [Psalms 129:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/129/3) — The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
- [Proverbs 19:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/11) — The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
- [Proverbs 28:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/2) — For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolon…
- [Proverbs 28:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/16) — The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/15) — All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that pr…
- [Ecclesiastes 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/8/12) — Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which…
- [Ecclesiastes 8:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/8/13) — But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
- [Isaiah 48:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/9) — For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
- [Isaiah 53:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/10) — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,…
- [Isaiah 54:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/2) — Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen…
- [Isaiah 57:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/4) — Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a se…
- [Ezekiel 12:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/12/22) — Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
- [Ezekiel 31:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/5) — Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of…