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Lexicon :: Strong's H6160 - ʿărāḇâ

Aa
עֲרָבָה
Transliteration
ʿărāḇâ
Pronunciation
ar-aw-baw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From עָרַב (H6150) (in the sense of sterility)
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TWOT Reference: 1688d

Strong’s Definitions

עֲרָבָה ʻărâbâh, ar-aw-baw'; from H6150 (in the sense of sterility); a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea:—Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also H1026.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 61x

The KJV translates Strong's H6160 in the following manner: plain (42x), desert (9x), wilderness (5x), Arabah (2x), champaign (1x), evenings (1x), heavens (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 61x
The KJV translates Strong's H6160 in the following manner: plain (42x), desert (9x), wilderness (5x), Arabah (2x), champaign (1x), evenings (1x), heavens (1x).

  1. desert plain, steppe, desert, wilderness

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֲרָבָה ʻărâbâh, ar-aw-baw'; from H6150 (in the sense of sterility); a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea:—Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also H1026.
STRONGS H6160: Abbreviations
I. עֲרָבָה 61 noun feminine desert-plain, steppe; — absolute ע׳ 2 Samuel 4:7 +, suffix עַרְבָתָהּ Isaiah 51:3; plural עֲרָבוֺת Jeremiah 5:6; Psalm 68:5, construct עַרְבוֺת 2 Kings 25:5 +, עַרְבֹת Jeremiah 52:8; —
1. earliest use:
a. arid steppe west of Dead Sea (in southern Judah) 1 Samuel 23:24, also Ezekiel 47:8; Isaiah 51:3, whence name יָם הָע׳ Joshua 3:16 (JE) || יָם הַמֶּלַח), also 2 Kings 14:25; Deuteronomy 4:49, and (|| id.) Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 12:3 (D); נַחַל הָעֲרָבָה Amos 6:14 must be east of Dead Sea, si vera lectio, but read probably מִצְרַיִם נ׳ see נַחַל.
b. Jordan-valley west of river + adjacent plain; near ford (opposite Jericho) 2 Samuel 2:29, compare Joshua 8:14 (JE); also Deuteronomy 11:30; 2 Kings 25:4 = Jeremiah 39:4 = Jeremiah 52:7; — 2 Samuel 15:28; 2 Samuel 17:16 see עֲבָרָה
c. Jordan-valley east of river 2 Samuel 4:7.
2. in D:
a. especially of east Jordan plain Deuteronomy 1:1 (probably) Joshua 12:1, 3, east half of Jordan-valley Deuteronomy 3:17; Deuteronomy 4:49; of entire Jordan-valley (between כִּנֶּרֶת and Dead Sea, modern El-Ghôr, the Depression) Deuteronomy 1:7; Joshua 11:2, 16; west Jordan plain only Joshua 12:8; depression south of Dead Sea (modern Wady el-`Arabah) Deuteronomy 2:8.
3. in P always plural construct עַרְבוֺת מוֺאָב (east Jordan) Numbers 22:1 + 11 times (see מוֺאָב); עְרֵחוֺ ע׳ (West Jordan) Joshua 4:13; Joshua 5:10, also 2 Kings 25:5 = Jeremiah 39:5 = Jeremiah 52:8.
4. apparently North Arabian desert Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 41:19.
5. in general the steppe (often || מִדְבָּר), Jeremiah 17:6; Jeremiah 50:12; Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 35:1, 6; Job 24:5; Job 39:6; Psalm 68:5; זְאֵב עֲרָבוֺת Jeremiah 5:6 (figurative of invader); compare description of Exodus אֶרֶץ עֲרָבָה וְשׁוּחָה Jeremiah 2:6; in simile, of a plain, of future land of Judah Zechariah 14:10. — See DrDeuteronomy 1:1 and references BuhlGeogr. 111.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

22:1

Deuteronomy

1:1; 1:1; 1:7; 2:8; 3:17; 3:17; 4:49; 4:49; 11:30

Joshua

3:16; 4:13; 5:10; 8:14; 11:2; 11:16; 12:1; 12:3; 12:3; 12:8

1 Samuel

23:24

2 Samuel

2:29; 4:7; 4:7; 15:28; 17:16

2 Kings

14:25; 25:4; 25:5; 25:5

Job

24:5; 39:6

Psalms

68:5; 68:5

Isaiah

33:9; 35:1; 35:6; 40:3; 41:19; 51:3; 51:3

Jeremiah

2:6; 5:6; 5:6; 17:6; 39:4; 39:5; 50:12; 52:7; 52:8; 52:8

Ezekiel

47:8

Amos

6:14

Zechariah

14:10

H6160

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6160 matches the Hebrew עֲרָבָה (ʿărāḇâ),
which occurs 61 times in 57 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Num 22:1–Jer 39:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:1 - Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:3 - So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:63

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:63 - All these were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:48 - And they went on from the mountains of Abarim, and put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:49 - Planting their tents by the side of Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the lowlands of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:50 - And in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, the Lord said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:1 - And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the laws and the orders which the Lord gave to the children of Israel by Moses, in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words which Moses said to all Israel on the far side of Jordan, in the waste land in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran on the one side, and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by the road through the waste land of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 - As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49 - And all the Arabah on the far side of Jordan to the east, as far as the sea of the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30 - Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:1 - And Moses went up from the table-lands of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah which is facing Jericho. And the Lord let him see all the land, the land of Gilead as far as Dan;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:8 - For thirty days the children of Israel were weeping for Moses in the table-lands of Moab, till the days of weeping and sorrow for Moses were ended.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:2 - And to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the highlands of Dor on the west,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:16 - So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland and the Arabah, the hill-country of Israel and its lowland;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1 - Now these are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel overcame, taking as their heritage their land on the east side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3 - And the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, to the east, and to the sea of the Arabah, that is the Salt Sea, to the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - In the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and on the mountain slopes, and in the waste land, and in the South; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - These are the heritages of which Moses made distribution in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan in Jericho, to the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:18 - And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the north, and down to the Arabah;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:24 - And they went back and came to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the waste land of Maon, in the dry land south of the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:29 - And all that night Abner and his men went through the Arabah; they went over Jordan and through all Bithron and came to Mahanaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - And when they came into the house, Ish-bosheth was stretched on his bed in his bedroom; and they made an attack on him and put him to death, and, cutting off his head, they took it with them and went by the road through the Arabah all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:28 - See, I will be waiting at the way across the river, in the waste land, till I get news from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:16 - So now send the news quickly to David, and say, Do not take your night's rest by the way across the river to the waste land, but be certain to go over; or the king and all the people with him will come to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:25 - He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:5 - But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 - Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:6 - To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:4 - Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:9 - The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 - The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:6 - Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:3 - A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:19 - I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 - And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6 - For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:4 - And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:5 - But the Chaldaean army went after them and overtook Zedekiah in the lowlands of Jericho: and they made him a prisoner and took him up to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, to be judged by him.

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