Word

אֹרֶב

ʼôreb · H696 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

ambush, trap

Literally: ambush; hence: an effort to gain control over someone else in order to harm that person as if setting an ambush

Examples
Jeremiah 9:8 “Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.
Hosea 7:6 For their hearts are like an oven As they approach their plotting; Their anger smolders all night, In the morning it burns like flaming fire.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הוּhis 1
הֶםtheir 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Control002003002007: אֹרֶב names an ambush, the concealed positioning used to gain the advantage over an unsuspecting target, as when Jeremiah and Hosea speak of plotting or lying in wait to strike.

Word family 6 words

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

אָרַב ʼârab · H693 · to lie in wait, to lay an ambush, to lurk · 41×אֲרֻבָּה ʼărubbâh · H699 · opening, hole, socket · 9×מַאֲרָב maʼărâb · H3993 · ambush · 5×אֶרֶב ʼereb · H695 · hiding-place · 2×אֹרֶבʼôreb · H696אׇרֳבָה ʼorŏbâh · H698 · struggle of hands · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H696. oreb [אֹ֫רֶב] noun [masculine] ambuscade only figurative — a. אָרְבּוֺ יָשִׂים Jer…

H696. oreb
[אֹ֫רֶב] noun [masculine] ambuscade only figurative —
a. אָרְבּוֺ יָשִׂים Jer 9:7 i.e. he planneth treachery.
b. אָרְבָּם their intrigue Hos 7:6 compare Nowp.126.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Control2 occurrences

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.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0