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Strong’s H737 · Hebrew

אֲרֻחָה

ʼăruchâh · ar-oo-khaw'

Origin feminine passive participle of אָרַח (H732) (in the sense of appointing);

Meaning a ration of food

In the King James Version allowance, diet, dinner, victuals.

In 4 verses of the King James Version

  1. 2 Kings 25:30And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
  2. Proverbs 15:17Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
  3. Jeremiah 40:5Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
  4. Jeremiah 52:34And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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