Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NASB95

NASB95

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 - ‘For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts H697 into your territory.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, H697 that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, even all that the hail has left.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13 - So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind [fn]brought the locusts. H697

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - The locusts H697 came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt; they were very [fn]numerous. There had never been so many [fn]locusts, H697 nor would there be so many [fn]again.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - So the LORD shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts H697 and drove them into the [fn]Red Sea; not one locust H697 was left in all the territory of Egypt.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:22 - ‘These of them you may eat: the locust H697 in its kinds, and the devastating locust in its kinds, and the cricket in its kinds, and the grasshopper in its kinds.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - “You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust H697 will consume it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in like locusts H697 for number, both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to devastate it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; H697 and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust H697 or grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their [fn]cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, if there is locust H697 or grasshopper, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their [fn]cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20 - “Do you make him leap like the locust? H697
His majestic snorting is terrible.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46 - He gave also their crops to the grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the locust. H697

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34 - He spoke, and locusts H697 came,
And young locusts, even without number,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 - I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust. H697

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27 - The locusts H697 have no king,
Yet all of them go out in ranks;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - “They have cut down her forest,” declares the LORD;
“Surely it will no more be found,
Even though [fn]they are now more numerous than locusts H697
And are without number.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4 - What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming H697 locust H697 has eaten;
And what the swarming H697 locust H697 has left, the creeping locust has eaten;
And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25 - “Then I will make up to you for the years
That the swarming H697 locust H697 has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:15 - There fire will consume you,
The sword will cut you down;
It will consume you as the locust does.
Multiply yourself like the creeping locust,
Multiply yourself like the swarming H697 locust. H697

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 - Your [fn]guardsmen are like the swarming H697 locust. H697
Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers
Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.
The sun rises and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NASB95
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NASB95
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.