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# אָרַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H696

**lie in wait** — 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

lie in wait [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/696/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֹ֫רֶב: ambuscade [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/696/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] ambuscade only fig.— יָשִׂים אָרְבּוֹ Je 9:7 i.e. he planneth treachery. אָרְבָּם their intrigue Ho 7:6 cf. Nowp. 126.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, 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 differs, 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: ambush (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 9:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.7/#tree)

חֵ֥ץ שָׁח֛וּט לְשׁוֹנָ֖ם מִרְמָ֣ה דִבֵּ֑ר בְּפִ֗יו שָׁל֤וֹם אֶת־רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ יְדַבֵּ֔רוּבְקִרְבּ֖וֹ יָשִׂ֥ים אָרְבּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].an.arrow beaten tongue their deceit it.speaks with mouth his peace with neighbor his someone.speaks and in his.inner being he.sets ambush his

*JPS 1917:* Their tongue is a sharpened arrow, it speaketh deceit; one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

[Hosea 7:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.6/#tree)

כִּֽי־קֵרְב֧וּ כַתַּנּ֛וּר לִבָּ֖ם בְּאָרְבָּ֑ם כָּל־הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ יָשֵׁ֣ן אֹֽפֵהֶ֔ם בֹּ֕קֶר ה֥וּא בֹעֵ֖ר כְּאֵ֥שׁ לֶהָבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.have.brought.near like (the) oven heart their in ambush their all the night \[is\].sleeping their baker morning it \[is\].burning like a.fire of.flame

*JPS 1917:* For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait; their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/696.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/696/): 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).