אַרְכָֿא
ar.ka (H6187)
lengthening
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# The Hebrew Word *Arka* (אַרְכָֿא): Lengthening and Extension The Hebrew word *arka* appears 33 times in the biblical text with the primary meaning of "lengthening." This term denotes the concept of making something longer or extending its duration. The word functions as a concrete descriptor of physical or temporal extension, providing biblical writers with vocabulary to express the idea of prolongation or increase in length. Given its relatively frequent appearance across 33 occurrences, *arka* likely held practical importance in describing both literal physical dimensions—such as the lengthening of structures or objects—and abstract temporal concepts, such as the extension of life or the prolongation of time periods. The consistent use of this single core definition suggests the word maintained a stable semantic field throughout the biblical period, serving as a straightforward term without significant metaphorical elaboration or shifting meanings across different contexts. The significance of *arka* lies in its role as a foundational vocabulary item for expressing the fundamental human concept of extension and prolongation—ideas central to biblical narratives about time, mortality, and divine action.
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You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps.
He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he will be forgiven.
He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according to your valuation,
your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
If the person is from a month old to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay.
and the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates it, so it shall be.
But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.
If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.
“ ‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.
But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.
If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.
then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh.
All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.
Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.
Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,
Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.
Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.