אַרְבֶּה
ar.beh
“locust”
Definition
a locust (from its rapid increase)
from H7235 (רָבָה);
- a kind of locust, locust swarm (coll) 2) (CLBL) 2a) sudden disappearance (fig.) 2b) insignificance (fig.) 2c) activity (fig.)
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
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Occurrences
אַרְבֶּה appears 21 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”
For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
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