אַרְבֶּה
ʼarbeh · H697 · Hebrew · 24 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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locust
Six-legged, winged insect that is characterized by the fact that its third pair of legs is elongated and adapted to hopping; insects of this type move in swarms at certain periods and migrate to new areas, which they colonize; at other times they live either solitary or in small groups; Acrididae family; normally eaten cooked by toasting, grilling, frying, or broiling, though in some places they are also eaten raw; clean animal, that may be eaten
ExamplesExodus 10:4 ‘For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
Exodus 10:12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Reach out with your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, everything that the hail has left.”
Exodus 10:13 So Moses reached out with his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD directed an east wind on the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶחָדone 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חַיִלarmy, wealth, strength 1
What it doesIt is the subject
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 2
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- חָסַלto devour 1
- עָלָהto go up 1
- שָׁאַרto remain 1
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 2
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִנְּזָרofficial 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 4 groups
- כlike/as 9
- מִןfrom 2
- בin/on/with 2
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- דַּיsufficiency 1
- יֶתֶרremainder 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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Near synonyms 4 words
- יֶלֶק yeleq · H3218 · locust
- The target lexeme (grasshopper, locust) and יֶלֶק (cankerworm, caterpillar) both denote destructive swarming insects, functioning as near-synonyms in the context of biblical plagues and devastation.
- גּוֹב gôwb · H1462 · locust
- The target lexeme and גֹּבַי are both Hebrew words denoting types of grasshopper or locust — swarming insect pests — and function as near-synonyms.
- חָגָב châgâb · H2284 · locust
- The target lexeme and חָגָב both denote locust or grasshopper types, functioning as near-synonyms within the category of swarming insects.
- סׇלְעָם çolʻâm · H5556 · locust
- סׇלְעָם (çolʻâm, H5556) (bald locust) refers to a specific variety identified by the descriptor "bald," while אַרְבֶּה (ʼarbeh, H697) (locust, grasshopper) is a more general or frequently used term for locusts and grasshoppers; both denote swarming locust-type creatures.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀκρίς akrís · G200 · grasshopper, locust
- Greek ἀκρίς (‘a locust’) is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew אַרְבֶּה, both denoting the locust or grasshopper insect.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Swarming Creatures001001002006
- אַרְבֶּה designates the locust or grasshopper, one of the swarming insects that devastated Egypt's crops in the plague narrative and appears elsewhere as an image of overwhelming numbers.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H697. arbeh אַרְבֶּה noun masculineExo 10:19 a kind of locust (usually interpreted as the…
אַרְבֶּה noun masculineExo 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 Jdg 6:5; Jdg 7:12; often apparently the common species (|| other species, compare לְמִינוֺ Lev 11:22): Jer 46:23; Nah 3:15 (simile of multitude; || יֶלֶק); as destructive Exo 10:4, Exo 10:12, Exo 10:13, Exo 10:14 (twice in verse); Exo 10:19a (all J), Psa 105:34 (|| יֶלֶק), Deu 28:38 (verb תסל), 1Ki 8:37 2Ch 6:28; Psa 78:46 (all + תָסִיל), Joe 1:4 (twice in verse) (|| חָסִיל יֶלָק, גָּזָם,), Joe 2:25 (|| id.); as disappearing suddenly (simile) Nah 3:17 (|| גּוֺבַי גּוֺב); as edible Lev 11:22 (H; || חָגָב חִרְגֹּל, סָלְעָם,); as well organized Pro 30:27 (compare Joe 2:7-8,); of single locust, ׳א אֶחָד Exo 10:19b (J), as leaping (simile) Job 39:20, as shaken out of garment (simile) Psa 109:23 (see II. נָעַר). — compare DrJoel 82 ff.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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