Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NIV

NIV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H697 - 'arbê

Choose a new font size and typeface
אַרְבֶּה
Transliteration
'arbê
Pronunciation
ar-beh'
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13 - So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the LORD made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - they invaded all Egypt and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea.[fn] Not a locust was left anywhere in Egypt.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:22 - Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - “When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - “When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20 - Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud snorting?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:46

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34 - He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 - I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27 - locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - They will chop down her forest,”

declares the LORD,

“dense though it be. They are more numerous than locusts, they cannot be counted.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4 - What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts[fn] have eaten.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25 - “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm[fn]— my great army that I sent among you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:15 - There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down— they will devour you like a swarm of locusts. Multiply like grasshoppers, multiply like locusts!

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 - Your guards are like locusts, your officials like swarms of locusts that settle in the walls on a cold day— but when the sun appears they fly away, and no one knows where.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NIV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NIV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.