עֵ֫רֶךְ
e.rekh
“valuation”
Definition
a pile, equipment, estimate
from H6186 (עָרַךְ);
- order, row, estimate, things that are set in order, layer, pile 1a) order, row 1b) estimate, valuation Aramaic equivalent: ar.ka (*אַרְכָֿא *"lengthening" H0754)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
עֵ֫רֶךְ appears 25 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.
“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
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