עֲרָבָה
a.ra.vah
“Arabah”
Definition
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);
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
עֲרָבָה appears 56 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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,
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?
I will plant cedars in the wilderness,acacias, myrtles, and olive trees.I will set cypresses in the desert,elms and boxwood together,
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,the poor go to work foraging for food;the wasteland is food for their children.
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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