HebrewH6160Noun

עֲרָבָה

a.ra.vah

56Occurrences
H6160Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea

from H6150 (עָרַב) (in the sense of sterility);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ desert plain, steppe, desert, wilderness

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

עֲרָבָה appears 56 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
11
Jeremiah
9
Numbers
9
Deuteronomy
8
Isaiah
6
2 Samuel
4
2 Kings
3
Job
2

Key Passages

1 Samuel 23:24BSB

So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,

Deuteronomy 11:30BSB

Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?

Isaiah 41:19BSB

I will plant cedars in the wilderness,acacias, myrtles, and olive trees.I will set cypresses in the desert,elms and boxwood together,

Job 24:5BSB

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,the poor go to work foraging for food;the wasteland is food for their children.

Joshua 5:10BSB

On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

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