Lexicon :: Strong's H693 - 'āraḇ

“But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait and ambush for him and attacks him and strikes him down so that he dies, and the assailant escapes to one of these cities,

So Abimelech and all the people who were with him got up during the night, and set up an ambush against Shechem, in four companies.

So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

So the Benjamites realized that they were defeated. Then men of Israel gave ground to the Benjamites, because they relied on the men in ambush whom they had placed against Gibeah.

We set out from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and He rescued us from the hand of the enemy and those who lay in ambushes along the way.

“If my heart has been enticed and I was made a fool by a woman,

Or if I have [covetously] lurked at my neighbor’s door [until his departure],

He lurks in a hiding place like a lion in his lair;

He lies in wait to catch the afflicted;

He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

Look! They lie in wait for my life;

Fierce and powerful men [are uniting together to] launch an attack against me,

Not for my wrongdoing nor for any sin of mine, O LORD.

If they say, “Come with us;

Let us lie in wait to shed blood,

Let us ambush the innocent without cause;

But [when these people set a trap for others] they lie in wait for their own blood;

They set an ambush for their own lives [and rush to their destruction].

At times she was in the streets, at times in the market places,

Lurking and setting her ambush at every corner.

The [malevolent] words of the wicked lie in wait for [innocent] blood [to slander],

But the mouth of the upright will rescue and protect them.

She lurks and lies in wait like a robber [who waits for prey],

And she increases the faithless among men.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous;

Do not destroy his resting place;

Set up a signal on the walls of Babylon [to spread the news];

Post a strong blockade,

Station the guards,

Prepare the men for ambush!

For the LORD has both purposed and done

That which He spoke against the people of Babylon.

He is to me like a bear lying in wait,

And like a lion [hiding] in secret places.

Our pursuers were swifter

Than the eagles of the sky;

They pursued us on the mountains,

They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

As they approach their plotting,

Their mind burns [with intrigue] like an oven [while they lie in wait].

Their anger smolders all night;

In the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

The godly person [who is faithful and loyal to God] has perished from the earth,

And there is no upright person [one with good character and moral integrity] among men.

They all lie in wait to shed blood;

Each hunts the other with a net.