Help QuickNav Adv. Options
BBE

BBE

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H702 - 'arbaʿ

Aa
אַרְבַּע
Transliteration
'arbaʿ
Pronunciation
ar-bah'
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine/feminine adjective, noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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.
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

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

Read the Full Entry

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H702 matches the Hebrew אַרְבַּע ('arbaʿ),
which occurs 320 times in 277 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 2:10–Num 1:31)

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:13 - And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:15 - And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:16 - And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:17 - And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - And in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings who were on his side, overcame the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:9 - Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15 - My lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four hundred shekels; what is that between me and you? so put your dead to rest there.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:16 - And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6 - When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22 - All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by her, fourteen persons.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:24 - And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:40

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:40 - Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41 - And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the armies of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:12 - And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:26 - And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the table;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:34 - And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:2 - Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:8 - Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:32 - Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:2 - Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:4 - And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:16 - And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:17 - And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first line is to be a cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:9 - Every curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:15 - Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:36 - And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:3 - And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other,

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:13 - And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the angles of its four feet.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:20 - And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:2 - And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:5 - And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:19 - There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29 - The brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred shekels;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:10 - And on it they put four lines of stones: in the first line was a carnelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:20 - Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21 - But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:23 - But all other winged four-footed things which go on the earth are disgusting to you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 - Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:42 - Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:29 - Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar were numbered.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:31 - Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Zebulun were numbered.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
BBE
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
BBE
Daily Devotionals

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

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