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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 Box Exo 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - The LORD said to Moses, "Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13 - So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - and the LORD turned a very strong west wind, and it picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:22 - These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - "You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - "The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - "The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20 - Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46 - He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34 - He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 - I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27 - locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - The population of Egypt is like a vast, impenetrable forest. But I, the LORD, affirm that the enemy will cut them down. For those who chop them down will be more numerous than locusts. They will be too numerous to count.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4 - What the gazam-locust left the 'arbeh-locust consumed, what the 'arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed!

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25 - I will make up for the years that the 'arbeh-locust consumed your crops - the yeleq-locust, the hasil-locust, and the gazam-locust - my great army that I sent against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:15 - There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would. Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 - Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.
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