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# אַרְגֹּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H709

**Argob** — used 4 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

Argob [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/709/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְגֹּב²: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/709/#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, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: of Argob (3); Argob (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 3:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.13/#tree)

וְיֶ֨תֶר הַגִּלְעָ֤ד וְכָל־הַבָּשָׁן֙ מַמְלֶ֣כֶת ע֔וֹג נָתַ֕תִּי לַחֲצִ֖י שֵׁ֣בֶט הַֽמְנַשֶּׁ֑ה כֹּ֣ל חֶ֤בֶל הָֽאַרְגֹּב֙ לְכָל־הַבָּשָׁ֔ן הַה֥וּא יִקָּרֵ֖א אֶ֥רֶץ רְפָאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and the.remainder of.(the) Gilead and all (the) Bashan the.kingdom of.Og I.gave to the.half of.the.tribe of.(the) Manasseh all the.region of.(the) Argob to all (the) Bashan (the) it it.was.called the.land of.\[the\].Rephaites

*JPS 1917:* and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob — all that Bashan is called the land of Rephaim.

[Deuteronomy 3:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.4/#tree)

וַנִּלְכֹּ֤ד אֶת־כָּל־עָרָיו֙ בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔וא לֹ֤א הָֽיְתָה֙ קִרְיָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־לָקַ֖חְנוּ מֵֽאִתָּ֑ם שִׁשִּׁ֥ים עִיר֙ כָּל־חֶ֣בֶל אַרְגֹּ֔ב מַמְלֶ֥כֶת ע֖וֹג בַּבָּשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* and we.captured (et) all cities his at the time (the) that not it.was a.town which not we.took from with them sixty citi\[es\] all the.region of.Argob the.kingdom of.Og in (the) Bashan

*JPS 1917:* And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/709.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/709/): 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).