# H748 אָרַךְ

אָרַךְ (ʼârak), Strong’s H748: to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively) KJV: defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-) long, [phrase] (out-, over-) live…. Occurs 34 times.

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*ʼârak* — to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)

KJV: defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-) long, [phrase] (out-, over-) live…

Occurs 34 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [אָרַךְ, אָרֵךְ] vb. be long, almost alw. of time
- Qal be long
- Hiph.
- 1 trans. prolong
- 2 intrans. grow long, continue long

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 26:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=8) — When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold…
- [Exodus 20:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=12) — “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
- [Numbers 9:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/9?v=19) — When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the LORD’s command, and didn’t…
- [Numbers 9:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/9?v=22) — Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children…
- [Deuteronomy 4:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=26) — I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go…
- [Deuteronomy 4:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=40) — You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your…
- [Deuteronomy 5:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/5?v=16) — “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go…
- [Deuteronomy 5:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/5?v=33) — You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with…
- [Deuteronomy 6:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/6?v=2) — that you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your…
- [Deuteronomy 11:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/11?v=9) — and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their…