אריוך
Arioch
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H746 appears — 6 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 14:1 אַרְי֖וֹךְ n Proper It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
- Genesis 14:9 וְ/אַרְי֖וֹךְ conj + n Proper against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
Daniel 4 verses
- Daniel 2:14 לְ/אַרְי֕וֹךְ prep + n Proper Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon;
- Daniel 2:15 לְ/אַרְיוֹךְ֙ אַרְי֖וֹךְ prep + n Proper n Proper he answered Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
- Daniel 2:24 אַרְי֔וֹךְ n Proper Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him: Don't destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 2:25 אַרְיוֹךְ֙ n Proper Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation.
About this entry
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“Arioch” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name אריוך (ʼĂryôwk). It clusters heavily in Daniel, which alone accounts for 67% of its uses. It turns up in 6 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Genesis 14:1, it enters the text early. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H746 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 67%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Arioch 7×
- American Standard Version: Arioch 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Arioch 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Arioch 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H746 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H746 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H746 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H746 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Arioch = "lion-like"
- the ancient king of Ellasar, ally of Chedorlaomer
- the chief of the executioners for Nebuchadnezzar
Word origin
n.pr.m. king of Ellasar Gn 14:1, 9, ally of Chedorlaomer in his western foray (prob. = Rim-Aku, Elamite king of Larsa = Ellasar; cf. COT ii. 297 f.). On Rim-Aku (= Eri-Aku?), v. now also DrComm. Gn. 156 ff.; ZimKAT3 367 thinks identification very dubious.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of foreign origin
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַרְיוֹךְ
- (Gen. XIV, 1) Aryokh, homiletic surname of Nebuzraddan. Lam. R. to V, 5 (allusion to ארי). e.g. Genesis 14:1
- 2. (cmp. Dan. II, 14) Aryokh, a title of Samuel, the contemporary of Rab. Sabb. 53ᵃ. Kidd. 39ᵃ. Men. 38ᵇ. Ḥull. 76ᵇ (prob. a Persian adaptation for judge). e.g. Daniel 2:14
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H746 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַרְי֖וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Daniel 2:15 | 2 |
| אַרְי֔וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Daniel 2:24 | 1 |
| אַרְיוֹךְ֙ | Noun, Proper | Daniel 2:25 | 1 |
| וְ/אַרְי֖וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 14:9 | 1 |
| לְ/אַרְי֕וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Daniel 2:14 | 1 |
| לְ/אַרְיוֹךְ֙ | Noun, Proper | Daniel 2:15 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Arioch). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Lion-like, venerable. (1.) A king of Ellasar who was confederate with Chedorlamer (Gen. 14:1, 9). The tablets recently discovered by Mr. Pinches (see CHALDEA) show the true reading is Eri-Aku of Larsa. This Elamite name meant "servant of the moon-god." It was afterwards changed into Rimsin, "Have mercy, O moon-god." (2.) Dan. 2:14.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(venerable).
+ The king of Eliasar, one of the allies of Chedorlaomer in his expedition against his rebellious tributaries. (Genesis 14:1) (B.C. 1921-1912.) + The captain of Nebuchadnezzar's body-guard. (Daniel 2:14) etc. + Properly Eirioch, or Erioch, mentioned in Judith 1:6 as king of the Elymaeans.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
long; great; tall
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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