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Lexicon :: Strong's H702 - 'arbaʿ

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אַרְבַּע
Transliteration
'arbaʿ
Pronunciation
ar-bah'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine adjective, noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2106a

Strong’s Definitions

אַרְבַּע ʼarbaʻ, ar-bah'; masculine אַרְבָּעָה ʼarbâʻâh; from H7251; four:—four.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 316x

The KJV translates Strong's H702 in the following manner: four (265x), fourteen (with H6240) (19x), fourteenth (with H6240) (23x), fourth (5x), forty (2x), three score and fourteen (with H7657) (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 316x
The KJV translates Strong's H702 in the following manner: four (265x), fourteen (with H6240) (19x), fourteenth (with H6240) (23x), fourth (5x), forty (2x), three score and fourteen (with H7657) (2x).

  1. four

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַרְבַּע ʼarbaʻ, ar-bah'; masculine אַרְבָּעָה ʼarbâʻâh; from H7251; four:—four.
STRONGS H702: Abbreviations
I. אַרְבַּע, אַרְבָּעָה 316 noun masculine and feminine four (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; MI8 ארבען = 40; Phoenician ארבע, Punic ארבעת, four; so Assyrian arba’u (rarely irba’), irbitti; Arabic أَرْبَعً, أَرْبَعَةً; Sabean ארבעת CISiv, no. 232.2 HomChrest. 47; Ethiopic አርባዕ፡ አርባዕፑ፡ Aramaic אַרְבַּע, אַרְבְּעָה, IfbRAf  , axibRAf  ; Nabataean ארבע, Palmyrene ארבע, ארבעא, Lzb367); — masculine148 (with noun feminine) אַרְבַּע (absolute or construct) Exodus 21:37 +; also אַרְבַּ֑ע Leviticus 11:20 +; note (Baer Gi) Joshua 21:18 + 6 times Joshua 21 (van d. H. אַרְבָּ֑ל); in Proverbs 30:18 read feminine with Qr; feminine (with noun masculine) absolute אַרְבָּעָה Genesis 2:10 + 125 times + Proverbs 30:18 (see above); construct אַרְבַּ֫עַת 1 Samuel 4:2 + 29 times, including Ezekiel 7:2 (but read masculine Kt); suffix אַרְבַּעְתָּם Ezekiel 1:8 + 5 times Ezekiel, אַרְבַּעְתָּן Ezekiel 1:10 (twice in verse) (but read probably ־תָּם, Krae), Ezekiel 1:16; Ezekiel 1:18; dual אַרְבַּעְתָּ֑יִם [H706 2 Samuel 12:6], see 1 d; plural אַרְבָּעִים = 40, see below; — four (in Hexateuch + 108 times, chiefly P, + 98 times; Ezekiel + 52 times, Chronicles + 47 times): —
1. without other number:
a. אַרְבַּע
(1) before feminine plural noun Jeremiah 15:3; Exodus 25:12 (P) + 101 times, including אַמּוֺת א׳ Deuteronomy 3:11 + 5 times (but also † בָּאַמָּה א׳ four (in) cubit(s) Exodus 26:2, 8; Exodus 36:9; 1 Kings 7:27 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 7:38), and מֵאוֺת א׳ = 400 Genesis 11:13 + 55 times
(2) א׳ before dual רַנְלָ֑יִם Leviticus 11:23, רַגְלָיו Exodus 25:26.
†(3) before collective, צאֹן א׳ Exodus 21:37 (E); רִבּוֺא א׳ = 40,000 Ezra 2:64 = Nehemiah 7:66.
†(4) rare and late, after feminine plural noun עָרִים א׳ Joshua 19:7 (P); after feminine singular noun construct לְ בִּשְׁנַת א׳ 1 Kings 22:41; Zechariah 7:1; 2 Chronicles 3:2. — קִרְיַת א׳, see this, and II. אַרְבַּע below.
†(5) noun omitted Ezekiel 43:15b Proverbs 30:15, 18 (Kt, see above), Proverbs 30:21; Daniel 8:8, 22; עַל־אַרְבַּ֑ל (that is רגלים = on all fours Leviticus 11:20, 21, 27, 42.
b. אַרְבָּעָה
(1) before masculine plural noun Genesis 2:10 (J), Genesis 14:9; Exodus 25:34 + 21 times, + חֳדָשִׁים יָמִים (וְ)א׳ Judges 19:2; 1 Samuel 27:7; also פָנִים א׳ א׳ distributive Ezekiel 10:21.
†(2) late, after masculine plural noun 1 Chronicles 23:10.
(3) noun omitted, Amos 1:3, 6, 9 + 15 times,.+ (as predicate of masculine plural noun) † Exodus 27:16 (twice in verse); Exodus 38:19 (twice in verse); also בְּא׳, (that is יוֺם) † Zechariah 7:1 = ordinal, on the fourth (day).
c. אַרְבַּ֫עַת
(1) before masculine plural noun Judges 11:40; 1 Kings 7:32 + 11 times (not Ezekiel 7:2, see above), + אֲלָפִים א׳ = 4000, 1 Samuel 4:2 + 14 times
†(2) before collective הַבָּקָר Numbers 7:7.
†(3) noun omitted 2 Samuel 21:22.
†(4) with suffix, after plural noun, = the four of them, Ezekiel 1:8, 10 (3 times in verse) + 6 times Ezekiel; Daniel 1:17 these boys, the four of them.
d. dual אַרְבַּעְתָּ֑יִם [H706 2 Samuel 12:6] = four-fold Ges§ 97h Kö11. l, 227, but read שִׁבְעָתָ֑יִם Greek Version of the LXX Th We Klo Dr Kmp Bu HPS.
2. with other number:
a.
(1) אַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה = 14,
(α) before feminine singular noun, שָׁנָה שָׁנָה ע'א׳ Genseis 31:41, + (as ordinal. =14th) Genesis 14:5; 2 Kings 18:13 = Isaiah 36:1, Ezekiel 40:1.
(β) after noun feminine plural ע'א'עָרִים Joshua 15:36 + 8 times, ע'א'נָשׁים 2 Chronicles 13:21.
(2) עָשָׂר אַרְבָּעָה = 14,
(α) before noun masculine singular Numberse 17:14 (14 x 1000), Hib 42:12; especially (as ordinal) יוֹם ע׳ א׳ 14th day Exodus 12:6; Exodus 12:18 + 7 times.
(β) before noun masculine plural. Numbers 29:15.
(γ) after noun masculine plural. Numbers 29:13; Numbers 29:17 + 6 times.
(δ) after noun masculine singular Esther 9:15; Esther 9:19; Esther 9:21, all=14th.
(ε) ע'א׳ predicate of נֶפֶשׁ Genesis 46:22.
(ζ) ע'א׳= 14th (sc. day) Leviticus 23:15; 2 Chronicles 30:15 + 6 times.
b. 20+ (וְ) 4+ n. s. 1 Kings 15:33; 1 Chronicles 23:4 + 13 times 1 Chronicles 27; + plural noun † Numbers 7:88; noun omitted 2 Samuel 21:20 predicate || 1 Chronicles 20:6; Nehemiah 7:23; 4+20+n.s. Numbers 25:9; = 24th, וְא׳ יוֺם ע׳ Haggai 1:15; Haggai 1:18; Zechariah 1:7; Nehemiah 9:1; Daniel 10:4, יוֺם omitted Haggai 2:10, 20, and (וְע׳ א׳) 1 Chronicles 24:18; 1 Chronicles 25:31†.
c. other tens + 4, 1 Chronicles 7:7; 1 Chronicles 5:18 (+ singular noun), Ezra 2:15 + 7 times; 4 + tens + שָׁנָה Genesis 11:16, + אֶלֶף 1000 Numbers 1:27, 29; Numbers 2:4, 6; Numbers 26:25, 43. — See Köii. 1, § 106.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:10; 2:10; 11:13; 11:16; 14:5; 14:9; 46:22

Exodus

12:6; 12:18; 25:12; 25:26; 25:34; 26:2; 26:8; 27:16; 36:9; 38:19

Leviticus

11:20; 11:20; 11:21; 11:23; 11:27; 11:42; 23:15

Numbers

1:27; 1:29; 2:4; 2:6; 7:7; 7:88; 25:9; 26:25; 26:43; 29:13; 29:15; 29:17

Deuteronomy

3:11

Joshua

15:36; 19:7; 21; 21:18

Judges

11:40; 19:2

1 Samuel

4:2; 4:2; 27:7

2 Samuel

21:20; 21:22

1 Kings

7:27; 7:32; 7:38; 15:33; 22:41

2 Kings

18:13

1 Chronicles

5:18; 7:7; 20:6; 23:4; 23:10; 24:18; 25:31; 27

2 Chronicles

3:2; 13:21; 30:15

Ezra

2:15; 2:64

Nehemiah

7:23; 7:66; 9:1

Esther

9:15; 9:19; 9:21

Proverbs

30:15; 30:18; 30:18; 30:18; 30:21

Isaiah

36:1

Jeremiah

15:3

Ezekiel

1:8; 1:8; 1:10; 1:10; 1:16; 1:18; 7:2; 7:2; 10:21; 40:1; 43:15

Daniel

1:17; 8:8; 8:22; 10:4

Amos

1:3; 1:6; 1:9

Haggai

1:15; 2:10; 2:20

Zechariah

1:7; 7:1; 7:1

H702

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Strong's Number H702 matches the Hebrew אַרְבַּע ('arbaʿ),
which occurs 52 times in 37 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:5 - And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the form of men,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:6 - but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:8 - Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:10 - As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man in front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle at the back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:15 - Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:16 - As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of a chrysolite; and the four had the same likeness, their construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:17 - When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:18 - The four wheels had rims and they had spokes; and their rims were full of eyes round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:2 - "And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9 - And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling chrysolite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:10 - And as for their appearance, the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:11 - When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went, but in whatever direction the front wheel faced the others followed without turning as they went.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:12 - And their rims, and their spokes, and the wheels were full of eyes round about--the wheels that the four of them had.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:14 - And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:21 - Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings the semblance of human hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 - "For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four sore acts of judgment, sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:9 - Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live."

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1 - In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was conquered, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was upon me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:41 - Four tables were on the inside, and four tables on the outside of the side of the gate, eight tables, on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:42 - And there were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, on which the instruments were to be laid with which the burnt offerings and the sacrifices were slaughtered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:5 - Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick; and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, round about the temple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20 - He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:14 - from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:15 - and the altar hearth, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, four horns, one cubit high.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:16 - The altar hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long by twelve broad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17 - The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit round about. The steps of the altar shall face east."

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:20 - And you shall take some of its blood, and put it on the four horns of the altar, and on the four corners of the ledge, and upon the rim round about; thus you shall cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:19 - The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21 - "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the feast of the passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:21 - Then he brought me forth to the outer court, and led me to the four corners of the court; and in each corner of the court there was a court--

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:22 - in the four corners of the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:23 - On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:16 - and these shall be its dimensions: the north side four thousand five hundred cubits, the south side four thousand five hundred, the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:30 - "These shall be the exits of the city: On the north side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits by measure,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:32 - On the east side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits, three gates, the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Dan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:33 - On the south side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits by measure, three gates, the gate of Simeon, the gate of Is'sachar, and the gate of Zeb'ulun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:34 - On the west side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits, three gates, the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher, and the gate of Naph'tali.
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