ἔνεδρον

אָרַב ʼârab · H693 · to lie in wait, to lay an ambush, to lurk

Hebrew verb אָרַב denotes the act of lying in ambush, while Greek noun ἔνεδρον denotes the ambush itself or the ambushing party; both share the core semantic domain of concealed hostile waiting, with the Greek term appearing as the standard LXX rendering of contexts involving אָרַב (ʼârab, H693).

מַאֲרָב maʼărâb · H3993 · ambush

Hebrew מַאֲרָב (ma'arab) and Greek ἔνεδρον (enedron) both denote the concrete military/tactical concept of an ambush or lying in wait, with the Greek term also extending to the figurative sense of murderous design/plot, making this a direct cross-linguistic translation equivalent attested in LXX rendering of Hebrew ambush terminology.

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.