Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
rank
Usage: 1) row, rank, battle-line 1a) battle-line 1b) rank 1c) row Also means: ma.a.rah (מַעֲרָה "army" H4630)
Maarakah means “arrangement” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4634 — skenopegia (“Tabernacles”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4634 מַעֲרָכָה (ma`arakah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ma`arakah (mah-ar-aw-kaw') n-f. 1. an arrangement 2. (concretely) a pile It has 17 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include army and array. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ma`arakah (mah-ar-aw-kaw') n-f. 1. an arrangement 2. (concretely) a pile 3. (specifically) a military array [feminine of H4633] KJV: army, fight, be set in order, ordered place, rank, row. Root(s): H4633
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rank
Usage: 1) row, rank, battle-line 1a) battle-line 1b) rank 1c) row Also means: ma.a.rah (מַעֲרָה "army" H4630)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ma`arakah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4634.
The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4634, grouped by book.
Maarakah (Strong's H4634) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "arrangement". ma`arakah (mah-ar-aw-kaw') n-f. 1. an arrangement 2. (concretely) a pile
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H4634 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4634 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as army and array. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.