Strong's #748: 'arak (pronounced aw-rak')

a primitive root; to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively):--defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-)long, + (out-, over-)live, tarry (long).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ârak

1) to be long, prolong

1a) (Qal) to be long

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to prolong (days)

1b2) to make long (tent cords)

1b3) to grow long, continue long

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 34 times:

 

Genesis 26:8: "And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines"
Exodus 20:12: "that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD"
Numbers 9:19: "And when the cloud tarried long upon many days, then the children of Israel"
Numbers 9:22: "or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon,"
Deuteronomy 4:26: "ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days"
Deuteronomy 4:40: "with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which"
Deuteronomy 5:16: "hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land"
Deuteronomy 5:33: "you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess."
Deuteronomy 6:2: "of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged."
Deuteronomy 11:9: "And that ye may prolong your days the land, which the LORD swore"
Deuteronomy 17:20: "from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in"
Deuteronomy 22:7: "the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days."
Deuteronomy 25:15: "shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD"
Deuteronomy 30:18: "that and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land,"
Deuteronomy 32:47: "is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither"
Joshua 24:31: "the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which"
Judges 2:7: "the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who"
1 Kings 3:14: "thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days."
1 Kings 8:8: " And they drew out the staves, that the ends were seen out in the holy place before"
2 Chronicles 5:9: " And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends were seen from the ark before"
Job 6:11: "and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?"
Psalms 129:3: "plowed upon they made long their furrows."
Proverbs 19:11: "The discretion of a man deferreth and it is his glory to pass over a transgression."
Proverbs 28:2: "of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged."
Proverbs 28:16: "oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days."
Ecclesiastes 7:15: "in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness."
Ecclesiastes 8:12: "do a hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know"
Ecclesiastes 8:13: "well neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth"
Isaiah 48:9: "For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off."
Isaiah 53:10: "an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper"
Isaiah 54:2: "of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;"
Isaiah 57:4: "whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children"
Ezekiel 12:22: "of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?"
Ezekiel 31:5: "the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters,"