Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
slow
Usage: 1) long (pinions) 2) patient, slow to anger
Arek means “patient” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G750 — archipoimen (“chief shepherd”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H750 אָרֵך (arek) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. arek (aw-rake') adj. 1. long [from H748] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include slow, long, patient, suffered, and wings. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
arek (aw-rake') adj. 1. long [from H748] KJV: long(-suffering, -winged), patient, slow (to anger). Root(s): H748
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H750. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
slow
Usage: 1) long (pinions) 2) patient, slow to anger
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render arek, 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.
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.
15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H750.
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H750, grouped by book.
Arek (Strong's H750) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "patient". arek (aw-rake') adj. 1. long [from H748]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H750 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H750 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as slow, long, patient, suffered, and wings. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.