אַרְבֶּה arbeh

Hebrew word for “locust” · Strong’s H697 · used 24 times in 21 verses

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Meaning

1) a kind of locust, locust swarm (coll); 2) (CLBL); 2a) sudden disappearance (fig.); 2b) insignificance (fig.); 2c) activity (fig.)

How it is translated

Glosses given for arbeh in context, with how often each is used:

• locusts 14
• locust 4
• like locust 2
• like the locust 2
• like locusts 1
• more than locusts 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 10 (5), Nahum 3 (2), Leviticus 11 (1), Deuteronomy 28 (1), Judges 6 (1), Judges 7 (1), 1 Kings 8 (1), 2 Chronicles 6 (1), Job 39 (1), Psalms 78 (1)

Forms

• הארבה 8
• ארבה 7
• כארבה 5
• לארבה 2
• בארבה 1
• מארבה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with arbeh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חָסִיל chasil “locust” 5
• יֶלֶק yeleq “locust” 4
• מִסְפָּר mispar “number” 4
• גָּזָם gazam “locust” 2
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 5
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 5
• מַחֲלָה machalah “sickness” 2
• שִׁדָּפוֹן shiddaphon “blight” 2
• יֵרָקוֹן yeraqon “mildew” 2
• מִצְרַיִם mitsrayim “Egypt” 4
• גְּבוּל gevul “border” 3
• נָטָה natah “to stretch” 3

Key verses

The verses using arbeh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 10:4 — Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
• Exodus 10:13 — And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was…
• Exodus 10:14 — And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as…
• Deuteronomy 28:38 — Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
• Judges 6:5 — For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they…
• Judges 7:12 — And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without…
• 1 Kings 8:37 — If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their…
• 2 Chronicles 6:28 — If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities…
• Psalms 105:34 — He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
• Psalms 109:23 — I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
• Joel 1:4 — That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath…
• Joel 2:25 — And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.