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Lexicon :: Strong's H6160 - ʿărāḇâ

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עֲרָבָה
Transliteration
ʿărāḇâ
Pronunciation
ar-aw-baw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From עָרַב (H6150) (in the sense of sterility)
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TWOT Reference: 1688d

Strong’s Definitions

עֲרָבָה ʻărâbâh, ar-aw-baw'; from H6150 (in the sense of sterility); a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea:—Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also H1026.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 61x

The KJV translates Strong's H6160 in the following manner: plain (42x), desert (9x), wilderness (5x), Arabah (2x), champaign (1x), evenings (1x), heavens (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 61x
The KJV translates Strong's H6160 in the following manner: plain (42x), desert (9x), wilderness (5x), Arabah (2x), champaign (1x), evenings (1x), heavens (1x).

  1. desert plain, steppe, desert, wilderness

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֲרָבָה ʻărâbâh, ar-aw-baw'; from H6150 (in the sense of sterility); a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea:—Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also H1026.
STRONGS H6160: Abbreviations
I. עֲרָבָה 61 noun feminine desert-plain, steppe; — absolute ע׳ 2 Samuel 4:7 +, suffix עַרְבָתָהּ Isaiah 51:3; plural עֲרָבוֺת Jeremiah 5:6; Psalm 68:5, construct עַרְבוֺת 2 Kings 25:5 +, עַרְבֹת Jeremiah 52:8; —
1. earliest use:
a. arid steppe west of Dead Sea (in southern Judah) 1 Samuel 23:24, also Ezekiel 47:8; Isaiah 51:3, whence name יָם הָע׳ Joshua 3:16 (JE) || יָם הַמֶּלַח), also 2 Kings 14:25; Deuteronomy 4:49, and (|| id.) Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 12:3 (D); נַחַל הָעֲרָבָה Amos 6:14 must be east of Dead Sea, si vera lectio, but read probably מִצְרַיִם נ׳ see נַחַל.
b. Jordan-valley west of river + adjacent plain; near ford (opposite Jericho) 2 Samuel 2:29, compare Joshua 8:14 (JE); also Deuteronomy 11:30; 2 Kings 25:4 = Jeremiah 39:4 = Jeremiah 52:7; — 2 Samuel 15:28; 2 Samuel 17:16 see עֲבָרָה
c. Jordan-valley east of river 2 Samuel 4:7.
2. in D:
a. especially of east Jordan plain Deuteronomy 1:1 (probably) Joshua 12:1, 3, east half of Jordan-valley Deuteronomy 3:17; Deuteronomy 4:49; of entire Jordan-valley (between כִּנֶּרֶת and Dead Sea, modern El-Ghôr, the Depression) Deuteronomy 1:7; Joshua 11:2, 16; west Jordan plain only Joshua 12:8; depression south of Dead Sea (modern Wady el-`Arabah) Deuteronomy 2:8.
3. in P always plural construct עַרְבוֺת מוֺאָב (east Jordan) Numbers 22:1 + 11 times (see מוֺאָב); עְרֵחוֺ ע׳ (West Jordan) Joshua 4:13; Joshua 5:10, also 2 Kings 25:5 = Jeremiah 39:5 = Jeremiah 52:8.
4. apparently North Arabian desert Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 41:19.
5. in general the steppe (often || מִדְבָּר), Jeremiah 17:6; Jeremiah 50:12; Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 35:1, 6; Job 24:5; Job 39:6; Psalm 68:5; זְאֵב עֲרָבוֺת Jeremiah 5:6 (figurative of invader); compare description of Exodus אֶרֶץ עֲרָבָה וְשׁוּחָה Jeremiah 2:6; in simile, of a plain, of future land of Judah Zechariah 14:10. — See DrDeuteronomy 1:1 and references BuhlGeogr. 111.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

22:1

Deuteronomy

1:1; 1:1; 1:7; 2:8; 3:17; 3:17; 4:49; 4:49; 11:30

Joshua

3:16; 4:13; 5:10; 8:14; 11:2; 11:16; 12:1; 12:3; 12:3; 12:8

1 Samuel

23:24

2 Samuel

2:29; 4:7; 4:7; 15:28; 17:16

2 Kings

14:25; 25:4; 25:5; 25:5

Job

24:5; 39:6

Psalms

68:5; 68:5

Isaiah

33:9; 35:1; 35:6; 40:3; 41:19; 51:3; 51:3

Jeremiah

2:6; 5:6; 5:6; 17:6; 39:4; 39:5; 50:12; 52:7; 52:8; 52:8

Ezekiel

47:8

Amos

6:14

Zechariah

14:10

H6160

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6160 matches the Hebrew עֲרָבָה (ʿărāḇâ),
which occurs 61 times in 57 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Num 22:1–Jer 39:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:1 - The children of Yisra'el traveled, and encamped in the plains of Mo'av beyond the Yarden at Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:3 - Moshe and El`azar the Kohen spoke with them in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:63

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:63 - These are those who were numbered by Moshe and El`azar the Kohen, who numbered the children of Yisra'el in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moshe, and to El`azar the Kohen, and to the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, to the camp at the plains of Mo'av, which are by the Yarden at Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:48 - They traveled from the mountains of `Avarimen, and encamped in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:49 - They encamped by the Yarden, from Beth-jeshimoth even to Avel-Hashshittim in the plains of Mo'av.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:50 - The LORD spoke to Moshe in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:1 - The LORD spoke to Moshe in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the mitzvot and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moshe to the children of Yisra'el in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words which Moshe spoke to all Yisra'el beyond the Yarden in the wilderness, in the `Aravah over against Suf, between Paran, and Tofel, and Lavan, and Hatzerot, and Di-Zahav.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amori, and to all the places near thereunto, in the `Aravah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Kana`anim, and Levanon, as far as the great river, the river Perat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esav, who dwell in Se`ir, from the way of the `Aravah from Elat and from `Etzyon-Gever. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Mo'av.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 - the `Aravah also, and the Yarden and the border of it, from Kinneret even to the sea of the `Aravah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49 - and all the `Aravah beyond the Yarden eastward, even to the sea of the `Aravah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30 - Aren't they beyond the Yarden, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Kana`anim who dwell in the `Aravah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:1 - Moshe went up from the plains of Mo'av to Mount Nevo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Yericho. The LORD shown him all the land of Gil`ad, to Dan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8 - The children of Yisra'el wept for Moshe in the plains of Mo'av thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moshe were ended.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Tzaretan; and those that went down toward the sea of the `Aravah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before the LORD to battle, to the plains of Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - The children of Yisra'el encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the Pesach on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - It happened, when the king of `Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Yisra'el to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the `Aravah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:2 - and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill-country, and in the `Aravah south of Kinnarot, and in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:16 - So Yehoshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the `Aravah, and the hill-country of Yisra'el, and the lowland of the same;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1 - Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Yisra'el struck, and possessed their land beyond the Yarden toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the `Aravah eastward:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3 - and the `Aravah to the sea of Kinnarot, eastward, and to the sea of the `Aravah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the `Aravah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amori, and the Kana`ani, the Perizzi, the Hivvi, and the Yevusi:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - These are the inheritances which Moshe distributed in the plains of Mo'av, beyond the Yarden at Yericho, eastward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:18 - and it passed along to the side over against the `Aravah northward, and went down to the `Aravah;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:24 - They arose, and went to Zif before Sha'ul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Ma`on, in the `Aravah on the south of the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:29 - Aviner and his men went all that night through the `Aravah; and they passed over the Yarden, and went through all Bitron, and came to Machanayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the `Aravah all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:28 - Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:16 - Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25 - He restored the border of Yisra'el from the entrance of Hamat to the sea of the `Aravah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, which he spoke by his servant Yonah the son of Ammittai, the prophet, who was of Gat-Hefer.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Kasdim were against the city round about); and the king went by the way of the `Aravah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:5 - But the army of the Kasdim pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Yericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 - Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:6 - Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:4 - Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: To the LORD, his name! Rejoice before him!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:9 - The land mourns and languishes; Levanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Karmel shake off their leaves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 - The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:6 - Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the mute shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:3 - The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of the LORD; make level in the desert a highway for our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:19 - I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the shittim, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - For the LORD has comforted Tziyon; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like `Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - Neither said they, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Mitzrayim, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 - Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6 - For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:4 - It happened that, when Tzidkiyahu the king of Yehudah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the `Aravah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:5 - But the army of the Kasdim pursued after them, and overtook Tzidkiyahu in the plains of Yericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nevukhadretztzar king of Bavel to Rivlah in the land of Hamat; and he gave judgment on him.

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