Quick Definition
to prolong
Strong's Definition
to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-) long, [phrase] (out-, over-) live, tarry (long).
TWOT Reference: 162
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אָרַךְ (a.rakh) — to prolong. 1) to be long, prolong 1a) (Qal) to be long 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to prolong (days) 1b2) to make long (tent cords) 1b3) to grow long, continue long Aramaic equivalent: a.rakh (אֲרִיךְ "be proper" H0749)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · אָרֵךְ · אֹרֶךְ · אָרֹךְ
Long | verb qal, verb hif | ≈ רבה
to be long, to grow long = to be long or to increase in length
Long | verb hif | ≈ ענג · רחב פֶּה
Collocation: ארךְ לָשֹׁון
to stick out (one's) tongue literally: to lengthen one's tongue; hence: = to stick out one's tongue ► in order to express one's joy at someone else's misfortune
Shape | verb hif | ≈ חרשׁ
Collocation: ארךְ לְמַעֲנִיתָם
to drive long furrows = to make long trenches in a field with a plow, pulled by domestic animals ► in order to prepare it for cultivation
Endure | verb qal, verb hif
Collocation: יָמִים ארךְ
days grow long > long time passes literally: days grow long; hence: = process in which a considerably amount of time passes
GEN 26:8 · EXO 20:12 · DEU 5:16 · DEU 6:2 · DEU 25:15 · EZK 12:22
Endure | verb hif
Collocation: ארךְ (יָמִים)
to prolong (days) > to stay long, to linger, to last, to live on literally: to prolong (days); hence: = to stay (in a certain location or position) for an extended period of time
NUM 9:19 · NUM 9:22 · DEU 4:26 · DEU 4:40 · DEU 5:33 · DEU 11:9 · DEU 17:20 · DEU 22:7 · DEU 30:18 · DEU 32:47 · JOS 24:31 · JDG 2:7 · PSA 72:5 · PRO 28:2 · PRO 28:16 · ECC 7:15 · ECC 8:12 · ECC 8:13 · ISA 53:10
Endure | verb hif
Collocation: ארךְ ימִים
to prolong (someone else's) days > to cause to live on literally: to prolong (someone else's) days; hence: = to cause someone else to stay (in a certain location or position) for an extended period of time
Patient | verb hif | ≈ חטם
Collocation: ארךְ אַף
to be slow to anger, to be patient literally: to prolong (= delay) one's anger; hence: = state in which humans or deities are able to restrain their anger
Patient | verb hif | ≈ יחל
Collocation: ארךְ נֶפֶשׁ
to wait patiently literally: to prolong (= delay) one's self; hence: = state in which humans are able to defer action in spite of their own wish to do so
1 PSA 72:5 LXX "συμπαραμενει" NIV NJB "he will endure" RSV NRSV "may he live" CEV "let ... live" | MT NJPS REB "fear you" GNT "worship you" = ירא
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[אָרַךְ, אָרֵךְ] vb. be long, almost alw. of time Qal be long
Hiph. trans. prolong
intrans. grow long, continue long
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