אֲרֻבָּה
a.rub.bah
“window”
Definition
a lattice; (by implication) a window, dovecot (because of the pigeon-holes), chimney (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water)
feminine participle passive of H693 (אָרַב) (as if for lurking);
- lattice, window, sluice 2) (CLBL) chimney (lattice opening where smoke escapes)
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
אֲרֻבָּה appears 9 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?”“You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?”So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
on the day the keepers of the house trembleand the strong men stoop,when those grinding cease because they are fewand those watching through windows see dimly,
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
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