Erech, e'-rech (Heb.)–long; length; extended; prolonged; attenuated; slack; dissolute; prostrate; prostitute; in a good sense, prolonged; lasting; relaxed; health.

A city that Nimrod built in the land of Shinar (Gen. 10:10).

Meta. The truth about the natural, inherent wholeness and goodness of man (because of his being made in the likeness of God), reduced in his consciousness to material thinking and, because of long and extended material thinking, bringing about the disastrous results of error in his body and affairs. (See ARCHEVITES.)