אֲרֻבָּה
ʼărubbâh · H699 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Thing
- WindowHouse, permanent dwelling24 verses
Meanings
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opening, hole, socket, window, floodgate
Opening in a wall
ExamplesGenesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
Genesis 8:2 Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;
2 Kings 7:2 The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning responded to the man of God and said, “Even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this thing happen?” Then he said, “Behold, you are going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it.”
How it’s used In 4 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
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- שָׁמַיִםheaven, sky 3
- הֶםtheir 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- פָּתַחto open 2
- סָכַרto be closed 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 2
- פָּתַחto open 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with 2
- אֵלto, toward 1
- מִןfrom 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
- Buildings001003002001
- אֲרֻבָּה names an opening in a structure — a window or floodgate — as in the windows of the sky opened at the flood or the windows Elijah's contemporary doubted the LORD could make in heaven.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H699. arubbah אֲרֻבָּה noun feminine lattice, window, sluice (Mishna id.) — ׳א Hos 13:3;…
אֲרֻבָּה noun feminine lattice, window, sluice (Mishna id.) — ׳א Hos 13:3; plural אֲרֻבּוֺת 2Ki 7:2 +, construct id.. Mal 3:10; אֲרֻבֹּת Gen 7:11; Gen 8:2; אֲרֻבֹּתֵיהֶם Isa 60:8; — lattice, latticed opening, where smoke escaped Hos 13:3; openings of dove-cote Isa 60:8; metaphor of eyes Ecc 12:3 (as latticed by lashes ? Hi Now; only here of opening to look through); elsewhere of sluices in sky, opened by ׳י, through which rain pours destructively, ׳א הַשָּׁמַיִם Gen 7:11; Gen 8:2, compare Isa 24:18 (׳מ מִמָּרוֺם); but also fertilizing 2Ki 7:2, 2Ki 7:19 (׳א בשׁמים); figurative of blessing Mal 3:10 (׳א השׁמים).
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
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
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