אַרְבֶּה
ʼarbeh · ar-beh'
a locust (from its rapid increase)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7235 (רָבָה);
a locust (from its rapid increase)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: grasshopper, locust.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › the head, the highest › the house, what is within › to reveal, behold
Strength, the leader of the head, the highest of the house, what is within that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אַרְבֶּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the locusts4 · 17%
- and the locusts2 · 8%
- locusts2 · 8%
- locust2 · 8%
- for the locusts1 · 4%
- the locust1 · 4%
- for the locust1 · 4%
- grasshoppers1 · 4%
- like grasshoppers1 · 4%
- as a grasshopper1 · 4%
- unto the locust1 · 4%
- as the locust1 · 4%
- than the grasshoppers1 · 4%
- hath the locust1 · 4%
- and that which the locust1 · 4%
- that the locust1 · 4%
- as the locusts1 · 4%
- are as the locusts1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.