Word study

Arrange

8 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: arranged, arrange. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “arrange” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • עָרַךְ ârakarrange or set in ordertranslated this way 7 times of its 75 uses · Strong’s H6186Verb  ·  Translated: arrayed 14, prepared 5, compare 5, set 4

    Genesis 22:9 When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.

    Exodus 40:23 He arranged the bread on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.

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  • הָיָה hâyâhfall out, come to pass, become, betranslated this way 1 time of its 2,848 uses · Strong’s H1961Verb  ·  Translated: will be 206, become 178, came 169, was 151Full study and all 2,573 verses →
  • קׇרְבָּן qorbânoffering, oblationtranslated this way 1 time of its 75 uses · Strong’s H7133Noun  ·  Translated: offering 57, offerings 5, one's offering 4, offers 2

    Nehemiah 13:31 I also arranged for contributions of wood at the appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, with favor.

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  • עַל alheighttranslated this way 1 time of its 4,859 uses · Strong’s H5921Preposition  ·  Translated: on 777, over 297, in 218, against 216Full study and all 3,996 verses →
  • תָּקַן tâqanbecome straighttranslated this way 1 time of its 3 uses · Strong’s H8626Verb  ·  Translated: straightened 1, straighten 1, arranged 1

    Ecclesiastes 12:9 Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.

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  • צֵלָע tsêlârib, sidetranslated this way 1 time of its 36 uses · Strong’s H6763Noun  ·  Translated: side 11, side rooms 9, sides 4, boards 2

    Ezekiel 41:6 The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

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  • שָׁלַשׁ shâlashdo a third time, devide into three partstranslated this way 1 time of its 7 uses · Strong’s H8027Verb  ·  Translated: three years old 1, divide into three regions 1, stayed three days 1, do 1

    Ezekiel 42:6 For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

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  • כּוּל kûlcomprehend, containtranslated this way 1 time of its 38 uses · Strong’s H3557Verb  ·  Translated: provide 4, provided 4, hold 4, contain 4

    1 Kings 4:7 Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,

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Greek words (New Testament)

How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.