אַרְבַּע
ʼarbaʻ · H703 · Aramaic · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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four
State in which a countable entity is four in number
ExamplesEzra 6:17 They offered for the dedication of this temple of God a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel twelve male goats, corresponding to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Daniel 3:25 He responded, “Look! I see four men untied and walking about in the middle of the fire unharmed, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods!”
Daniel 7:2 Daniel said, “I was looking in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִנּוּןare 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- τέσσαρες téssares · G5064 · four
- Greek τέσσαρες directly translates Hebrew אַרְבַּע as the cardinal numeral 'four' across all contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- אַרְבַּע is the cardinal number four, as the four men seen walking unharmed in the fire (Daniel 3:25) and the four great beasts of Daniel's vision (Daniel 7:3).
- Frequency002001003009
- This code is inherited from the shared root's "fourfold" sense of repetition, not independently attested by אַרְבַּע (ʼarbaʻ, H703)'s own citations, which are all simple counting.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H703. arba אַרְבְּעָה אַרְבַּע, noun masculine and feminine four; — 1. masculine: before…
אַרְבְּעָה אַרְבַּע, noun masculine and feminine four; —
1. masculine: before feminine plural noun Dan 7:2-3, noun feminine singular ׳א מְאָה Ezr 6:17; after feminine plural noun Dan 7:6; as predicate אַרְבַּ֑ע Dan 7:17.
2. feminine: before masculine plural noun Dan 7:6, Dan 7:16; after masculine plural noun Dan 3:25.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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