אָרַךְ ʼârak — to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-) long, (out-, over-) live, tarry.
a primitive root; to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively).
ʼârak in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 17Perfect (qatal) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Infinitive construct 2Wayyiqtol 2Participle (active) 2Imperative 1
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not.
Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Wayyiqtol 1
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
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 ›