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Lexicon :: Strong's H693 - 'āraḇ

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אָרַב
Transliteration
'āraḇ
Pronunciation
aw-rab'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 156

Strong’s Definitions

אָרַב ʼârab, aw-rab'; a primitive root; to lurk:—(lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x

The KJV translates Strong's H693 in the following manner: lay in wait (26x), liers in wait (8x), ambush (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x
The KJV translates Strong's H693 in the following manner: lay in wait (26x), liers in wait (8x), ambush (8x).

  1. to lie in wait, ambush, lurk

    1. (Qal)

      1. to lie in wait

      2. ambush (participle as subst)

    2. (Piel) ambushers, liers-in-wait (pl. participle)

    3. (Hiphil) to lay an ambush

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָרַב ʼârab, aw-rab'; a primitive root; to lurk:—(lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.
STRONGS H693: Abbreviations
† אָרַב verb lie in wait (Arabic أَرُبَ be crafty) —
Qal Perfect וְאָרַב consecutive Deuteronomy 19:11; Judges 21:20; אָרָֽבְתִּי׃ Job 31:9; אָֽרְבוּ Psalm 59:4; Lamentations 4:19; Imperfect יֶאֱרֹב Psalm 10:9 (twice in verse); יֶאֱרֹ֑בוּ Proverbs 1:18; Micah 7:2; וָיֶּֽֽֽ אֶרְבוּ Judges 9:34; Judges 16:2; נֶָֽאֶרְבָה Proverbs 1:11; Imperative אֱרֹב Judges 9:32; Infinitive אֱרָב־ Proverbs 12:6; Participle אֹרֵב Joshua 8:2 + 11 times; אוֺרֵב Joshua 8:12 + 4 times; אֹרְבִים Joshua 8:4 + 2 times; — lie in wait (with hostile purpose), absolute Judges 9:32, 43 + Judges 21:20; Job 31:9; Psalm 10:9; Proverbs 7:12; Proverbs 23:28; 1 Samuel 22:8, 13; Lamentations 3:10 (of bear, compare Psalm 10:9); with infinitive of purpose Psalm 10:9; with accusative דָּם א׳ Proverbs 12:6; with עַל, and person against whom Deuteronomy 19:11; Judges 9:34; usually with ל Micah 7:2; Judges 16:2; Psalm 59:4; Proverbs 1:11, 18; Proverbs 24:15; Lamentations 4:19 compare Joshua 8:2, 4, 14; Participle as substantive = liers-in-wait (plural) Judges 20:29; usually singular collective ambush Joshua 8:2, 12, 14, 19, 21; Judges 16:9, 12; Judges 20:33, 36, 37 (twice in verse); Judges 20:38; Ezra 8:31; plural of this singular = ambuscades Jeremiah 51:12; singular = place of lying-in-wait, ambush (local sense) Joshua 8:7.
Pi. Participle plural liers-in-wait id quod
Qal Participle מְאָֽרְבִים Judges 9:25 (with ל), 2 Chronicles 20:22 (with עַל).
?Hiph. Imperfect זַיָּרֶב בנחל (for וַיַּאֲרֶב) 1 Samuel 15:5 (compare Dr Köi. 390; Ges-Kau§ 68. 2 queries) but text dubious; compare Ol§ 237 b, & Klo, who proposes ויעבר בנחל.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

19:11; 19:11

Joshua

8:2; 8:2; 8:2; 8:4; 8:4; 8:7; 8:12; 8:12; 8:14; 8:14; 8:19; 8:21

Judges

9:25; 9:32; 9:32; 9:34; 9:34; 9:43; 16:2; 16:2; 16:9; 16:12; 20:29; 20:33; 20:36; 20:37; 20:38; 21:20; 21:20

1 Samuel

15:5; 22:8; 22:13

2 Chronicles

20:22

Ezra

8:31

Job

31:9; 31:9

Psalms

10:9; 10:9; 10:9; 10:9; 59:4; 59:4

Proverbs

1:11; 1:11; 1:18; 1:18; 7:12; 12:6; 12:6; 23:28; 24:15

Jeremiah

51:12

Lamentations

3:10; 4:19; 4:19

Micah

7:2; 7:2

H693

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Strong's Number H693 matches the Hebrew אָרַב ('āraḇ),
which occurs 41 times in 39 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 - “But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:7 - Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will give it into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - He took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place[fn] toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:19 - And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it. And they hurried to set the city on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:25 - And the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way. And it was told to Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:32 - Now therefore, go by night, you and the people who are with you, and set an ambush in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:34 - So Abimelech and all the men who were with him rose up by night and set an ambush against Shechem in four companies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:43 - He took his people and divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. And he looked and saw the people coming out of the city. So he rose against them and killed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:29 - So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:33 - And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar, and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place from Maareh-geba.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:36 - So the people of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:37 - Then the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:38 - Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in the main ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:20 - And they commanded the people of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:8 - that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - And when they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31 - Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:9 - “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman,
and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:9 - he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket;
he lurks that he may seize the poor;
he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:3 - For behold, they lie in wait for my life;
fierce men stir up strife against me.
For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:11 - If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
let us ambush the innocent without reason;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:18 - but these men lie in wait for their own blood;
they set an ambush for their own lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:12 - now in the street, now in the market,
and at every corner she lies in wait.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:6 - The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,
but the mouth of the upright delivers them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:28 - She lies in wait like a robber
and increases the traitors among mankind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:15 - Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous;
do no violence to his home;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:12 - “Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon;
make the watch strong;
set up watchmen;
prepare the ambushes;
for the LORD has both planned and done
what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:10 - He is a bear lying in wait for me,
a lion in hiding;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Our pursuers were swifter
than the eagles in the heavens;
they chased us on the mountains;
they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:6 - For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:2 - The godly has perished from the earth,
and there is no one upright among mankind;
they all lie in wait for blood,
and each hunts the other with a net.
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