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# אֶרֶב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H695

**ambuscade** — used 2 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

ambuscade [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/695/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]— a lying-in-wait Jb 38:40. covert, lair 37:8 (‖ מְעוֹנוֹת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a lair (1); lying-in-wait (1).

## In the verses

[Job 37:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.8/#tree)

וַתָּבֹ֣א חַיָּ֣ה בְמוֹ־אָ֑רֶב וּבִמְע֖וֹנֹתֶ֣יהָ תִשְׁכֹּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.went an.animal in a.lair and in dens its it.dwells

*JPS 1917:* Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.

[Job 38:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.40/#tree)

כִּי־יָשֹׁ֥חוּ בַמְּעוֹנ֑וֹת יֵשְׁב֖וּ בַסֻּכָּ֣ה לְמוֹ־אָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.will.crouch in (the) dens they.will.remain in (the) thicket for lying-in-wait

*JPS 1917:* When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/695.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/695/): 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).