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maareketh
Noun, Feminine
Row, order, arrangement, pile (showbread)

Definition

From H6186 (arak, 'to arrange/set in order'). Maareketh refers to an ordered arrangement or row β€” specifically used for the two rows of showbread (lechem ha-panim) set before the LORD in the Tabernacle and Temple.

Usage & Theological Significance

The showbread (lechem ha-panim, 'bread of the faces/presence') was arranged in two rows of six loaves on the golden table in the Holy Place. Fresh bread was set out every Sabbath, with the priests eating the previous week's loaves. This perpetual offering represented Israel's continual dependence on God for daily bread and their covenant relationship with the God of the presence. Jesus declared Himself the 'bread of life' (John 6:35), fulfilling what the maareketh foreshadowed. His body, the true bread, is now the eternal provision replacing the weekly renewal of the showbread.

Key Bible Verses

1 Chronicles 9:32
And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
Leviticus 24:6
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
1 Chronicles 23:29
Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried...
John 6:35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger.
Hebrews 9:2
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

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