עֵ֫רֶךְ

1. order, row, בְּגָדִים ׳ע Judg 17:10 a (complete) suit of clothes (laid out in order), ᵐ5^B στολὴν ἱματίων; לֶחֶם ׳ע Exod 40:23 i.e. loaves arranged in a row, so ׳ע alone vExod 40:4 (P); עֶרְכּוֺ Job 41:4 his symmetry (see חִין below חנן).

2. estimate, valuation, made by ordering, classifying: אִישׁ כְּעֶרְכּוֺ 2Kgs 23:35 in 2Kgs 12:5 read עֵרֶךְ (for ᵑ0 עוֺנֵּר) money of a man's valuation ᵐ5 Benz Kit, and probably strike out כֶּסֶף נַפְשׁוֺת עֶרְכּוֺ (?׳עֶרֶח נ ׳כ Kit) as gloss (Sta^{ZAW v (1885), 288 f.}); כְּעֶרְכִּי Ps 55:14 a man according to my valuation, figurative for my equal; elsewhere P, of priest's valuation of trespass-offering Lev 5:15; Lev 5:18; Lev 5:25, vows, and redemption-money Lev 27:2; Lev 27:3 (twice in verse); Lev 27:4 + 17 t. 27 (כֶּסֶף עֶרְכְּךָ see 15; vLev 27:19, מִכְסַת הָעֶרְכְּךָ vLev 27:23 [strike out ךְָ], compare vLev 27:23b [strike out id.]), Num 18:16. — Job 28:13 read דַּרְכָּהּ ᵐ5 Di and others