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# אַרְגֹּב

Biblical Hebrew

**Argob** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Argob [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d2_5b9_5bc_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְגֹּב²: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d2_5b9_5bc_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. loc. (heap, or region of clods; ‘glebe’ GASm G 551);—always חֶבֶל א׳ Dt 3:4, 14; 1 K 4:13, ח׳ הָא׳ Dt 3:13, = measured region of Argōb; some well-defined district of Bashan (appar. identif. with חַוֹּת יָאִיר Dt 3:14 \[where ח׳ י׳ in Bashan, so Jos 13:30\], but this a harmonistic correction; ח׳ י׳ in fact in Gilead \[Nu 32:41 Ju 10:4\], and disting. from אַרְגֹּב 1 K 4:13 cf. Dt 3:13); exact loc. dubious, GASml.c. and especially Dr Dt 3:4; BuhlGeogr. 18 thinks of Ṣuwet, S. of Upper Yarmuk, a border district between Bashan and Gilead.—Αργοβ; 1 K 4:13 Ερεβαταμ, 𝔊L Ραγαβαν, A Εργαβ. m. 2 K 15:25, Αργοβ; dub.; v. Klo Kit Benz Bur.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Argob (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 15:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.25/#tree)

וַיִּקְשֹׁ֣ר עָלָיו֩ פֶּ֨קַח בֶּן־רְמַלְיָ֜הוּ שָׁלִישׁ֗וֹ וַיַּכֵּ֨הוּ בְשֹׁמְר֜וֹן בְּאַרְמ֤וֹן בֵּית־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אֶת־אַרְגֹּ֣ב וְאֶת־הָאַרְיֵ֔ה וְעִמּ֛וֹ חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים אִ֖ישׁ מִבְּנֵ֣י גִלְעָדִ֑ים וַיְמִיתֵ֖הוּ וַיִּמְלֹ֥ךְ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.conspired on him Pekah the.son of.Remaliah officer his and he struck.him.down in Samaria in the.fortress of.the.house of the.king with Argob and with (the) Arieh and.\[were\] with him fifty man of the.sons of.\[the\].Gileadites and he killed.him and he.became.king in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, by Argob and by Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites; and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d2_5b9_5bc_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5d2_5b9_5bc_5d1/): 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).