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Lexicon :: Strong's H697 - 'arbê

Aa
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.
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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13 - And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:22 - Such as all the different sorts of locust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - If there is no food in the land, if there is disease, if the fruits of the earth are damaged by heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers: whatever trouble or whatever disease there may be:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20 - Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46 - He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34 - At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 - I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27 - The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4 - What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25 - I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:15 - There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 - Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.
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