וְרַב־חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת cf. Nu 14:18 Ne 9:17 ψ 86:15 ; 103:8 ; 145:8 ; so +

וְנִחָם עַל־הָרָעָה Jo 2:13 cf. Jon 4:2 (where אֵל ), א׳ אַפַּיִם וּגְדֹול כֹּחַ Na 1: 3; לְאֶרֶךְ אַפְּךָ only Je 15:15 , א׳ appar. noun; read אֹרֶךְ ? cf. Pr 25:1 5.

• [ אָרֹךְ S 752 TWOT 162c GK 801 ] adj. long —only fs. abs. אֲרֻכָּה ^{;—a. of} time, הַמִּלְחָמָה א׳ long war 2 S 3: 1; of the exile Je 29:28 ; b. fig. of God’s wisdom א׳ מֵאֶרֶץ מִדָּהּ Jb 11:9 ( || רְחָבָה מִנִּי־יָם ).

• אֲרוּכָה S 724 TWOT 162d GK 776 n.f. healing of a wound, restoration

( properly the new flesh that grows at the wounded spot, Arabic أَرِيكَةٌ ( ˒arīkatun ); Fi JPh. xiii. 114–6 , so Fl De on Is 58:8 ; v. also Di ) — א׳ 2 Ch 24:13 Ne 4: 1; אֲרֻכָה Je 30:1 7; 33:6 ; cstr. אֲרֻכַת Je 8:2 2; אֲרֻכָֽתְךָ Is 58: 8;—always fig. a. healing, restoration of Israel Is 58:8 , here c. vb. צָמַח , elsewhere c.

עָלָה ; Je 8:22 ( || רָפָא ), c. עָלָה Hiph., subj. י׳ , 30:17 ; 33:6 ( || id. ) b. restoration of walls of temple 2 Ch 24:13 , of walls of Jerusalem ( cf. Fi supr .) Ne 4:1 (both c. עלה ).

• אֶ˜רֶךְ S 751 GK 804 n.pr.loc. city in Babylonia ( ^Bab. Uruk ) , mod. Warka on left bank of Euphrates, c. 40 miles NW. from Ur ( אוּר ) towards Babylon; cf. Loftus ^{CS 162 f.} Dl ^{Pa 221 f.} Gn 10:10 ( v. Ezr 4: 9).

• אַרְכִּי S 757 GK 805 adj. gent. ( deriv. unknown ) applied to חוּשַׁי 2 S 15:32 ; 16:16 ; 17:5 , 14 1 Ch 27:3 3; with art. = n. coll. גְּבוּל הָא׳ Jos 16:2 (not far from Bethel).

אֲרָם S 758 TWOT 163 GK 806149 n.pr.m. Aram ( Assyrian Aramu , etc., v. Dl Pa 257 ; Thes al. proposes √ ארם = רום but cf. Nö as below ) — 1. 5th son of Shem Gn 10:22 , 23 1 Ch 1:1 7. 2. grandson of Nahor Gn 22:21 . 3. 1 Ch 2:23 . 4. a descendant of Asher

Fi Frederick Field, especially circa., Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt. JPh. Journal of Philology (Engl.).

Fl H.L. Fleischer. Bab. Babylonian. Loftus W. K. Loftus, Chaldaea and Susiana. √ root or stem.