עָרַךְ ʻârak — to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
Translated in the KJV as put (the battle, self) in array, compare, direct, equal, esteem, estimate, expert, furnish, handle, join, ordain.
a primitive root; to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications).
ʻârak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 20Imperfect (yiqtol) 14Perfect (qatal) 7Participle (passive) 7Sequential perfect (weqatal) 6Infinitive construct 5Participle (active) 5Imperative 3Cohortative 2Infinitive absolute 1
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;
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.
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.
Hiph'il
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
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.
And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
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.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›