STRONGS NUMBER H751


Word Summary
Erek: a city in Babylon
Original Word: אֶרֶךְ
Transliteration: Erek
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-rek)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a city in Babylon
Meaning: Erech -- a city in Babylon
Strong's Concordance
Erech

From 'arak; length; Erek, a place in Babylon -- Erech.

see HEBREW 'arak

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H751. Erek

אֶ֫רֶךְproper 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.