אַרְבַּע arba

Hebrew word for “four” · Strong’s H702 · used 318 times in 277 verses

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Meaning

four

How it is translated

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

• four 249
• four- 36
• belonged to the four 9
• day four- 6
• four things 5
• about four 4
• will be four 2
• four legs 2
• four feet 2
• four horns 1
• like the four 1
• day four 1

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 27 (13), Numbers 29 (8), Joshua 21 (8), 1 Kings 7 (8), Ezekiel 1 (8), Numbers 2 (7), Ezra 2 (6), Nehemiah 7 (6), Ezekiel 10 (6), Leviticus 11 (5)

Forms

• ארבע 93
• ארבעה 66
• וארבעה 44
• וארבע 37
• ארבעת 14
• בארבעה 13
• וארבעת 12
• לארבע 6
• לארבעתם 6
• בארבע 5

Words used with it

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

• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 79
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 63
• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 52
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 41
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 41
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 36
• אֶחָד echad “one” 36
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 33
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 33
• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 19
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 20
• חֲמִשִּׁים chamishshim “fifty” 17

Key verses

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

• Exodus 12:6 — And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
• 1 Kings 22:6 — Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I…
• Isaiah 11:12 — And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of…
• Ezekiel 7:2 — Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
• Ezekiel 14:21 — For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the…
• Daniel 1:17 — As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
• Amos 1:3 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with…
• Amos 1:11 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the…
• Amos 1:13 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up…
• Amos 2:4 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the…
• Amos 2:6 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver,…
• Zechariah 2:6 — Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.

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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.