Array
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
(2): (n.) The panel itself.
(3): (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
(4): (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; - applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
(5): (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
(6): (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
(7): (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
(8): (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
(9): (n.) An imposing series of things.
(10): (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
King James Dictionary [2]
ARRA'Y, n.
1. Order disposition in regular lines as an army in battle array. Hence a posture of defense. 2. Dress garments disposed in order upon the person. 3. In law, the act of impaneling a jury or a jury impaneled that is, a jury set in order by the sheriff, or called man by man.
Commission of array, in English history, was a commission given by the prince to officers in every county, to muster and array the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war.
ARRA'Y,
1. To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle. 2. To deck or dress to adorn with dress it is applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
Array thyself with glory. Job 40 .
Pharaoh arrayed Joseph with fine linen. Genesis 41
3. To set a jury in order for the trial of a cause that is, to call them man by man. 4. To envelop.
In gelid caves with horrid glooms arrayed.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Jeremiah 43:12 (a) When Nebuchadnezzar conquered Egypt and added it to his magnificent kingdom, GOD speaks of it as though the king had put on another and expensive garment. This addition was to add to the glary of the king.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [4]
ClotheNo.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
a - rā ´ ((1) לבשׁ , lābhēsh , עטה , ‛āṭāh ; περιβάλλω , peribállō , ἐνδύομαι , endúomai , ἱματισμός , himatismós ̌ . (2) ערך , ‛ārakh , שׁית , shı̄th ): "Array," composed of prefix "ar-" and "rai," "order," is used in two senses, (1) in reference to clothing and (2) in reference to the disposition of an army.
(1) ( a ) Lābhēsh is the most common Hebrew word meaning "to clothe," and is used in all cases but one in the Old Testament for "array" (compare Genesis 41:42 : Pharaoh "arrayed him (Joseph) in vestures of fine linen"; see also 2 Chronicles 28:15; Esther 6:9 , Esther 6:11; Job 40:10; 2 Chronicles 5:12 ). ( b ) ‛Āṭāh , meaning "to veil," "to cover," is once used. Nebuchadrezzar "shall array himself with the land of Egypt" ( Jeremiah 43:12 ). ( c ) Periballō , "to throw around," is used 6 times in the New Testament. It is the word used of Herod's "arraying" Jesus "in gorgeous apparel" ( Luke 23:11; the other references are Matthew 6:29; Luke 12:27; Revelation 7:13; Revelation 17:4; Revelation 19:8 ). ( d ) Enduomai , middle or passive of endúō , "to enter," means, therefore, "to be entered into" clothing. Once it is used in reference to Herod ( Acts 12:21 ). ( e ) Hı̄matismos , "clothing," is translated once "array" = raiment (from same root). This is the only occurrence of "array" in this sense ( 1 Timothy 2:9 ).
(2) ( a ) ‛Ārakh is the common word in the Old Testament, used in reference to the disposition of an army, and is translated "to put in array," "to set in array," the object being "the battle" or the army. The root meaning is that of orderly arrangement, and the verb is used in other senses than the military, e.g. arranging the table of shewbread. In 1 Chronicles 12:33 the Revised Version (British and American) has "order the battle array" for the King James Version "keep rank," translation of Hebrew ‛ādhār ̌ . ( b ) Shı̄th , "to set, to place," used once for battle array: "and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate" ( Isaiah 22:7 ).
