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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
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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 any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - You shall do to `Ai and her king as you did to Yericho and her king: only the spoil of it, and the cattle of it, shall you take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the city behind it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:7 - and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beit-El and `Ai, on the west side of the city.

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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 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:19 - The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - When Yehoshua and all Yisra'el saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of `Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:25 - The men of Shekhem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:32 - Now therefore, up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:34 - Avimelekh rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shekhem in four companies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:43 - He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and, behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - It was told the `Azati, saying, Shimshon is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, Let be until morning light, then we will kill him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. She said to him, The Pelishtim are on you, Shimshon. He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So 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 therewith, and said to him, The Pelishtim are on you, Shimshon. The liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:29 - Yisra'el set liers-in-wait against Gevah round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:33 - All the men of Yisra'el rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Ba`al-Tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Yisra'el broke forth out of their place, even out of Ma`areh-Geva.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:36 - So the children of Binyamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Yisra'el gave place to Binyamin, because they trusted to the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gevah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:37 - The liers-in-wait hurried, and rushed on Gevah; and the liers-in-wait drew themselves along, 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 sign between the men of Yisra'el and the liers-in-wait was that they should make 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 - They commanded the children of Binyamin, saying, Go and lie in wait 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, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Yishai, and there is none of you who 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 - Sha'ul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Yishai, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise 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 - When they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set liers-in-wait against the children of `Ammon, Mo'av, and Mount Se`ir, who had come against Yehudah; and they were struck.

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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 Yerushalayim: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:9 - "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:9 - He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in 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 soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, Not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:11 - If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; Let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:18 - But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:12 - Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:6 - The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, But the speech of the upright rescues them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:28 - Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, And increases the unfaithful among men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:15 - Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:12 - Set up a standard against the walls of Bavel, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Bavel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:10 - He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:6 - For they have made ready their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:2 - The godly man has perished out of the eretz, And there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net.
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