H0751

אֶ֫רֶךְ

e.rekhN:N--L

Erech

Erech = "long" a city 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Ur toward Babylon on the left bank of the Euphrates river Also named: ar.ke.vay (אַרְכְּוָיֵא "Erech" H0756)

The KJV translates H0751 in the following manner:

Erech (2x)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

אֶ֫רֶךְ proper name, of a location city in Babylonia (Babylonian Urûk see Dl below) on left bank of Euphrates,approximately 40 miles northwest from Ur (אוּר) toward Babylon; modern Warka; compare LoftusCS 152 f. DlPa 221 f.



אַרְכְּוָיֵ֯ proper name, of a people people of Erech (Biblical Hebrew אֶרֶךְ; so also MeyEJud. 40); — plural emphatic Ezra 4:9 (Qr אַרְכְּוָיֵא; compare K§ 61, 6).


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