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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 BoxExo 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - But if thou wilt not send my people away, behold, at this hour to-morrow I will bring an abundance of locusts upon all thy coasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt, and let the locust come up on the land, and it shall devour every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which the hail left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13 - And Moses lifted up his rod towards heaven, and the Lord brought a south wind upon the earth, all that day and all that night: the morning dawned, and the south wind brought up the locusts,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - and brought them up over all the land of Egypt. And they rested in very great abundance over all the borders of Egypt. Before them there were not such locusts, neither after them shall there be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the Lord brought in the opposite direction a strong wind from the sea, and took up the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea, and there was not one locust left in all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:22 - And these of them ye shall eat: the caterpillar and his like, and the attacus and his like, and the cantharus and his like, and the locust and his like.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - Thou shalt carry forth much seed into the field, and thou shalt bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - For they and their stock came up, and their tents were with them, as the locust in multitude, and there was no number to them and their camels; and they came to the land of Israel, and laid it waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And Madiam and Amalec and all the children of the east were scattered in the valley, as the locust for multitude; and there was no number to their camels, but they were as the sand on the seashore for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - If there should be famine, if there should be death, because there should be blasting, locust, or if there be mildew, and if [fn]their enemy oppress them in any one of their cities, with regard to every [fn]calamity, every trouble,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - If there should be famine upon the land, if there should be death, a pestilent wind and blight; if there should be locust and caterpillar, and if the enemy should harass them before their cities: in whatever plague and whatever distress they may be;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20 - And hast thou clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46 - (LXX 77:46) And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labours to the locust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34 - (LXX 104:34) He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 - (LXX 108:23) I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27 - The locusts have no king, and yet march orderly at one command.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - (LXX 26:23) They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, for their number cannot at all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4 - The leavings of the [fn]caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25 - And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, even my great army, which I sent against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:15 - There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 - Thy mixed multitude has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!
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