Carach means “exceeding” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H5628 סָרַח (carach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. carach (saw-rakh') v. 1. to extend (even to excess) [a primitive root] It has 7 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include spreading, exceeding, stretch, and stretched. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
carach (saw-rakh') v. 1. to extend (even to excess) [a primitive root] KJV: exceeding, hand, spread, stretch self, banish.
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to overrun
Usage: 1) to go free, be unrestrained, be overrun, exceed, overhang, grow luxuriously 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go free, be unrestrained, sprawl 1a1a) overrunning, spreading (participle) 1a2) to overhang 1b) (Niphal) to be let loose or dismissed or gone
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render carach, 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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7 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5628.
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5628, grouped by book.
Carach (Strong's H5628) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "exceeding". carach (saw-rakh') v. 1. to extend (even to excess) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's H5628 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5628 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as spreading, exceeding, stretch, and stretched. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.