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Strong's H6186 עָרַךְ (arak)

Arak means “put” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6186
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 71
Books 19

Strong's H6186 Quick Answer

Strong's H6186 וַיַּֽעַרְכ֤וּ is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `arak (aw-rak') v. 1. to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications) [a primitive root] It has 71 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include set, put, order, battle, and ordered. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
`arak (aw-rak') v. 1. to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications) [a primitive root]
Usage
71 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
set, put, order, battle, and ordered

Meaning and Definition

`arak (aw-rak') v. 1. to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications) [a primitive root] KJV: put (set) (the battle, self) in array, compare, direct, equal, esteem

Original Word
וַיַּֽעַרְכ֤וּ
Morphology
TH8799

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6186. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to arrange

Usage: 1) to arrange, set or put or lay in order, set in array, prepare, order, ordain, handle, furnish, esteem, equal, direct, compare 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to arrange or set or lay in order, arrange, state in order, set forth (a legal case), set in place 1a2) to compare, be comparable

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How Strong's H6186 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Strong's H6186, 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.

set Exodus 40:4 20× put Leviticus 1:7 14× order Exodus 27:21 10× battle 1 Chronicles 12:8 ordered 2 Samuel 23:5 they Genesis 14:8

How Strong's H6186 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 71 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6186 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6186 in the Old Testament

71 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 14:8 KJV

And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

Genesis 22:9 KJV

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

Exodus 27:21 KJV

In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Usage Excerpts

First 71 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6186.

Genesis 14:8 Old Testament, KJV
And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
Genesis 22:9 Old Testament, KJV
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
Exodus 27:21 Old Testament, KJV
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus 40:4 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
Exodus 40:23 Old Testament, KJV
And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Leviticus 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
Leviticus 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
Leviticus 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
Leviticus 6:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
Leviticus 24:3 Old Testament, KJV
Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
Leviticus 24:4 Old Testament, KJV
He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
Leviticus 24:8 Old Testament, KJV
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
Leviticus 27:8 Old Testament, KJV
But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
Leviticus 27:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
Leviticus 27:14 Old Testament, KJV
And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
Numbers 23:4 Old Testament, KJV
And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.
Joshua 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
Judges 20:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
Judges 20:22 Old Testament, KJV
And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
Judges 20:30 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Judges 20:33 Old Testament, KJV
And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
1 Samuel 4:2 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Samuel 17:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
1 Samuel 17:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Samuel 17:21 Old Testament, KJV
For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
2 Samuel 10:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
2 Samuel 10:9 Old Testament, KJV
When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
2 Samuel 10:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
2 Samuel 23:5 Old Testament, KJV
Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
1 Kings 18:33 Old Testament, KJV
And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
2 Kings 23:35 Old Testament, KJV
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.
1 Chronicles 12:8 Old Testament, KJV
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
1 Chronicles 12:33 Old Testament, KJV
Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
1 Chronicles 12:35 Old Testament, KJV
And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.
1 Chronicles 12:36 Old Testament, KJV
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
1 Chronicles 19:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.
1 Chronicles 19:10 Old Testament, KJV
Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
1 Chronicles 19:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
1 Chronicles 19:17 Old Testament, KJV
And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
2 Chronicles 13:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles 14:10 Old Testament, KJV
Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
Job 6:4 Old Testament, KJV
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 13:18 Old Testament, KJV
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Job 23:4 Old Testament, KJV
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 28:17 Old Testament, KJV
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
Job 28:19 Old Testament, KJV
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Job 32:14 Old Testament, KJV
Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
Job 33:5 Old Testament, KJV
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
Job 36:19 Old Testament, KJV
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Job 37:19 Old Testament, KJV
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
Psalms 5:3 Old Testament, KJV
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Psalms 23:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Psalms 40:5 Old Testament, KJV
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Psalms 50:21 Old Testament, KJV
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Psalms 78:19 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Psalms 89:6 Old Testament, KJV
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Psalms 132:17 Old Testament, KJV
There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
Proverbs 9:2 Old Testament, KJV
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Isaiah 21:5 Old Testament, KJV
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
Isaiah 30:33 Old Testament, KJV
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Isaiah 40:18 Old Testament, KJV
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Isaiah 44:7 Old Testament, KJV
And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.
Isaiah 65:11 Old Testament, KJV
But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
Jeremiah 6:23 Old Testament, KJV
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 46:3 Old Testament, KJV
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
Jeremiah 50:9 Old Testament, KJV
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
Jeremiah 50:14 Old Testament, KJV
Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:42 Old Testament, KJV
They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
Ezekiel 23:41 Old Testament, KJV
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
Joel 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6186, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 10 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 8 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 9 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 7 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6186 FAQ

What does arak (עָרַךְ) mean?

Arak (Strong's H6186) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "put". `arak (aw-rak') v. 1. to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications) [a primitive root]

How many times is arak (עָרַךְ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 71 linked usages for Strong's H6186 across 19 books.

Where can I study arak (עָרַךְ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6186 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate arak (עָרַךְ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as set, put, order, battle, ordered, and they. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.