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Lexicon :: Strong's H697 - 'arbê

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אַרְבֶּה
Transliteration
'arbê
Pronunciation
ar-beh'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2103a

Strong’s Definitions

אַרְבֶּה ʼarbeh, ar-beh'; from H7235; a locust (from its rapid increase):—grasshopper, locust.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x

The KJV translates Strong's H697 in the following manner: locust (20x), grasshopper (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x
The KJV translates Strong's H697 in the following manner: locust (20x), grasshopper (4x).

  1. a kind of locust, locust swarm (coll)

  2. (CLBL)

    1. sudden disappearance (fig.)

    2. insignificance (fig.)

    3. activity (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַרְבֶּה ʼarbeh, ar-beh'; from H7235; a locust (from its rapid increase):—grasshopper, locust.
STRONGS H697: Abbreviations
† אַרְבֶּה noun masculineExodus 10:19 a kind of locust (usually interpreted as the multitudinous, but DlHWB 126 as = Assyrian âribu, êribu, êribû, locust-swarm, from ארב devastate); — always absolute (הָ)א׳; — usually collective locust-swarm, in simile of swarm of invaders Judges 6:5; Judges 7:12; often apparently the common species (|| other species, compare לְמִינוֺ Leviticus 11:22): Jeremiah 46:23; Nahum 3:15 (simile of multitude; || יֶלֶק); as destructive Exodus 10:4, 12, 13, 14 (twice in verse); Exodus 10:19a (all J), Psalm 105:34 (|| יֶלֶק), Deuteronomy 28:38 (verb תסל), 1 Kings 8:37 2 Chronicles 6:28; Psalm 78:46 (all + תָסִיל), Joel 1:4 (twice in verse) (|| גָּזָם, יֶלָק, חָסִיל), Joel 2:25 (|| id.); as disappearing suddenly (simile) Nahum 3:17 (|| גּוֺב גּוֺבַי); as edible Leviticus 11:22 (H; || סָלְעָם, חִרְגֹּל, חָגָב); as well organized Proverbs 30:27 (compare Joel 2:7, 8); of single locust, אֶחָד א׳ Exodus 10:19b (J), as leaping (simile) Job 39:20, as shaken out of garment (simile) Psalm 109:23 (see II. נָעַר). — compare DrJoel 82 ff.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

10:4; 10:12; 10:13; 10:14; 10:19; 10:19; 10:19

Leviticus

11:22; 11:22

Deuteronomy

28:38

Judges

6:5; 7:12

1 Kings

8:37

2 Chronicles

6:28

Job

39:20

Psalms

78:46; 105:34; 109:23

Proverbs

30:27

Jeremiah

46:23

Joel

1:4; 2:7; 2:8; 2:25

Nahum

3:15; 3:17

H697

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H697 matches the Hebrew אַרְבֶּה ('arbê),
which occurs 24 times in 21 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13 - And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:22 - even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague or whatsoever sickness there be;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20 -
Hast thou made him to leap as a locust?
The glory of his snorting is terrible.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46 -
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar,
And their labor unto the locust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34 -
He spake, and the locust came,
And the grasshopper, and that without number,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 -
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27 -
The locusts have no king,
Yet go they forth all of them by bands;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4 - That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25 - And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:15 - There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 - Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
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