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# אַרְבֶּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H697

**locust** — used 24 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

locust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/697/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְבֶּה²: n.m. locust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/697/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 10:19 a kind of locust (usually interp. as the multitudinous, but DlHWB 126 as = Assyrian âribu, êribu, êribû, locust-swarm, from ארב devastate);—always abs. (הָ)א׳;—usually coll. locust-swarm, in sim. of swarm of invaders Ju 6:5; 7:12; often appar. the common species (‖ other species, cf. לְמִינוֹ Lv 11:22): Je 46:23; Na 3:15 (sim. of multitude; ‖ יֶלֶק); as destructive Ex 10:4, 12, 13, 14(×2), 19a (all J), ψ 105:34 (‖ יֶלֶק), Dt 28:38 (vb. חסל), 1 K 8:37 = 2 Ch 6:28, ψ 78:46 (all + חָסִיל), Jo 1:4(×2) (‖ גָּזָם, יֶלֶק, חָסִיל), 2:25 (‖ id.); as disappearing suddenly (sim.) Na 3:17 (‖ גּוֹב גּוֹבַי); as edible Lv 11:22 (H; ‖ סָלְעָם, חַרְגֹּל, חָגָב); as well organized Pr 30:27 (cf. Jo 2:7, 8); of single locust, א׳ אֶחָד Ex 10:19b (J), as leaping (sim.) Jb 39:20, as shaken out of garment (sim.) ψ 109:23 (v. II. נָעַר).—Cf. Dr Jo 82 ff.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: locust\[s\] (13); locust (7); a locust (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 105:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.34/#tree)

אָ֭מַר וַיָּבֹ֣א אַרְבֶּ֑ה וְ֝יֶ֗לֶק וְאֵ֣ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* he.spoke and it.came locust\[s\] and locust\[s\] and there.\[was\].not a.number

*JPS 1917:* He spoke, and the locust came, and the canker-worm without number,

[Job 39:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.20/#tree)

הְֽ֭תַרְעִישֶׁנּוּ כָּאַרְבֶּ֑ה ה֖וֹד נַחְר֣וֹ אֵימָֽה׃

*Word for word:* do you make.it.leap? like (the) locust the.majesty its.snorting his \[is\].terror

*JPS 1917:* Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrible.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/697.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/697/): 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).