Strong's Lexicon

H697

H697 — אַרבֶּה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewarbehnoun mascOccurrences: 24TWOT: 2103a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H697
Word:	אַרבֶּה
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from H7235
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	24
Transliteration:	arbeh
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	ar-beh'
Meaning:	1. a locust (from its rapid increase)
KJV Renderings:	grasshopper, locust.

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אַרְבֶּה noun masculine^{Exod 10:19} a kind of locust (usually interpreted as the multitudinous, but Dl^{HWB 126 as} = Assyrian âribu, êribu, êribû , locust-swarm, from ארב devastate); — always absolute ׳ (הָ)א; — usually collective locust-swarm, in simile of swarm of invaders Judg 6:5; Judg 7:12 often apparently the common species (|| other species, compare לְמִינוֺ Lev 11:22): Jer 46:23; Nah 3:15 (simile of multitude; || יֶלֶק); as destructive Exod 10:4; Exod 10:12; Exod 10:13; Exod 10:14 (twice in verse); Exod 10:19a (all J ), Ps 105:34 (|| יֶלֶק), Deut 28:38 (verb תסל), 1Kgs 8:37 = 2Chr 6:28; Ps 78:46 (all + תָסִיל ), Joel 1:4 (twice in verse) (|| גָּזָם, יֶלָק, חָסִיל), Joel 2:25 (|| id. ); as disappearing suddenly (simile) Nah 3:17 (|| גּוֺב גּוֺבַי); as edible Lev 11:22 ( H ; || סָלְעָם, חִרְגֹּל, חָגָב); as well organized Prov 30:27 (compare Joel 2:7; Joel 2:8); of single locust, אֶחָד ׳ א Exod 10:19b ( J ), as leaping (simile) Job 39:20, as shaken out of garment (simile) Ps 109:23 (see II. נָעַר ). — compare Dr^{Joel 82 ff}.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

ארבה (ar-beh’)

Exodus 10:4

KJV: Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:

EHCC: will 1 bring the locusts into thy

Leviticus 11:22

KJV: Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

EHCC: the locust after his kind,

Deuteronomy 28:38

KJV: Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

EHCC: for the locust shall consume it.

Judges 6:5

KJV: For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

EHCC: they came as grasshoppers

Judges 7:12

KJV: And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

EHCC: lay along in the valley like grasshoppers

1 Kings 8:37

KJV: If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;cities: or, jurisdiction

EHCC: blasting, mildew, locust, .

Job 89:20

EHCC: make him afraid as a grasshopper 7

Psalms 78:46

KJV: He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

EHCC: their labour unto the rust,

Psalms 105:34

KJV: He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

EHCC: He spake, and the locusts came,

Psalms 109:23

KJV: I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

EHCC: up and down as the locust.

Proverbs 20:27

KJV: The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.candle: or, lamp

EHCC: The locusts have no king, ₪

Joel 1:4

KJV: That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.That which the palmerworm…: Heb. The residue of the palmerworm

EHCC: hath the loewst eaten; ‘and that which the

Joel 2:25

KJV: And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

EHCC: that the locust hath eaten,

Nehemiah 3:15

KJV: But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col–hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

EHCC: make thyself many as the locusts.