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# אֲרֻבָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H699

**lattice** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lattice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/699/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲרֻבָּה: n.f. lattice, window, sluice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/699/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lattice, window, sluice (Mish. id.)—א׳ Ho 13:3; pl. אֲרֻבּוֹת 2 K 7:2 +, cstr. id. Mal 3:10; אֲרֻבֹּת Gn 7:11; 8:2; אֲרֻבֹּתֵיהֶם Is 60:8;—lattice, latticed opening, where smoke escaped Ho 13:3; openings of dove-cote Is 60:8; metaph. of eyes Ec 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 Gn 7:11; 8:2, cf. Is 24:18 (א׳ מִמָּרוֹם); fig. of abundance 2 K 7:2, 19; (א׳ בשׁמים); of blessing Mal 3:10 (א׳ השׁמים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: windows (5); the windows (3); a window (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 60:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.60.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.60.8/#tree)

מִי־אֵ֖לֶּה כָּעָ֣ב תְּעוּפֶ֑ינָה וְכַיּוֹנִ֖ים אֶל־אֲרֻבֹּתֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* who? \[are\].these like (the) cloud they.fly and like (the) doves to windows their

*JPS 1917:* Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their cotes?

[Genesis 8:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.2/#tree)

וַיִּסָּֽכְרוּ֙ מַעְיְנֹ֣ת תְּה֔וֹם וַֽאֲרֻבֹּ֖ת הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וַיִּכָּלֵ֥א הַגֶּ֖שֶׁם מִן־הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.shut.up the.springs of.the.deep and the.windows of the.heavens and it.was.restrained the rain from the heavens

*JPS 1917:* the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/699/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).