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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - ‘For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts H697 into your territory.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 -

Then Yahweh 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, all that the hail has left remaining.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13 - So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - And the locusts H697 came up over all the land of Egypt and rested on all the territory of Egypt; they were very heavy. There had never been so many [fn]locusts H697, nor would there be so many [fn]again.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - So Yahweh changed 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 remained in all the territory of Egypt.
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.
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.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - For they would go 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 make it a ruin.
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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 -

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is scorching wind or mildew, locust H697 or grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their [fn]cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 -

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is scorching wind 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,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20 -

“Do you make him leap like the locust H697?

His splendid snorting is terrible.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46 -

He gave also their crops to the grasshopper

And the fruit of their labor to the locust H697.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34 -

He spoke, and locusts H697 came,

And creeping locusts, without number,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 -

I am passing like a shadow when it is stretched out;

I am shaken off like the locust H697.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27 -

The locusts H697 have no king,

Yet all of them go out in rank;

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 -

“They have cut down her forest,” declares Yahweh;

“Surely it will no longer be searched out,

Even though [fn]they are now more numerous than locusts H697

And are without number.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4 -

What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming H697 locust H697 has consumed;

And what the swarming H697 locust H697 has left, the creeping locust has consumed;

And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has consumed.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25 -

“Then I will pay back to you in full for the years

That the swarming H697 locust H697 has consumed,

The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust,

My great military force which I sent among you.

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.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 -

Your [fn]guardsmen are like the swarming H697 locust H697.

Your marshals are like a locust-swarm

Encamping in the stone walls on a cold day.

The sun rises, and they flee,

And the place where they are is not known.

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