Lexicon :: Strong's H6160 - ʿărāḇâ

The Israelites journeyed, and camped in the plains of Moab, on the east side of the Jordan [River] across from Jericho.

These are those numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel [for the second time] in the plains of Moab by the Jordan [River] at Jericho.

Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan [across from] Jericho, saying,

These are the commandments and the ordinances (judgments) which the LORD commanded through Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan [across from] Jericho.

These are the words which Moses spoke to all [fn]Israel [while they were still] beyond [that is, on the east side of] the Jordan [River] in the wilderness [across from Jerusalem], in the Arabah [the long, deep valley running north and south from the eastern arm of the Red Sea to beyond the Dead Sea] opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab (place of gold).

“So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who lived in Seir, away from the Arabah (wilderness) road, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber. Then we turned and passed through by the way of the Wilderness of Moab.

[fn]Now Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, from Gilead to Dan,

While the Israelites camped at Gilgal they observed the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho.

So Joshua took all this land: the hill country, all the Negev (South country), all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah [plain], the hill country of Israel and its lowland

Now these are the kings of the land whom the sons of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed beyond the Jordan toward the east, from the valley of the [river] Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah [plain] to the east:

These are the territories which Moses distributed as an inheritance in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho to the east.

So they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah south of Jeshimon.

“Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,

The poor go to their work, diligently seeking food;

As bread for their children in the desert.

To whom I gave the wilderness as his home

And the salt land as his dwelling place?

Sing to God, sing praises to His name;

Lift up a song for Him who rides through the desert—

His name is the LORD—be in good spirits before Him.

The land mourns and dries out,

Lebanon is shamed and [its lush foliage] withers;

[fn]Sharon is like a desert plain,

And [fn]Bashan and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves.

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;

The Arabah (desert) will shout in exultation and blossom

Like the [fn]autumn crocus.

Then the lame will leap like a deer,

And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy.

For waters will break forth in the wilderness

And streams in the desert.

A voice of one is calling out,

“Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness [remove the obstacles];

Make straight and smooth in the desert a highway for our God.

“I will put the cedar in the wilderness,

The acacia, the myrtle and the olive tree;

I will place the juniper in the desert

Together with the box tree and the cypress,

For the LORD will comfort Zion [in her captivity];

He will comfort all her ruins.

And He will make her wilderness like Eden,

And her desert like the garden of the LORD;

Joy and gladness will be found in her,

Thanksgiving and the voice of a melody.

“They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD

Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,

Who led us through the wilderness,

Through a land of deserts and of pits,

Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death],

Through a land that no man passed through

And where no man lived?’

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them,

A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,

A leopard is watching their cities.

Everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,

Because their transgressions are many,

Their desertions of faith are countless.

“For he will be like a shrub in the [parched] desert;

And shall not see prosperity when it comes,

But shall live in the rocky places of the wilderness,

In an uninhabited salt land.