Word Study · Strong's H697 · Hebrew
אַרְבֶּה
arbeh
ar-beh'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼarbeh
“a locust (from its rapid increase)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a locust (from its rapid increase)
Rendered in the KJV as
grasshopper, locust.
- 24occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 12 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 20inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 24 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 20
- אַרְבֶּה֙2
- אַרְבֶּ֤ה2
- הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה2
- הָאַרְבֶּֽה׃2
- אַרְבֶּ֑ה1
- אַרְבֶּ֖ה1
- אַרְבֶּ֣ה1
- בָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה1
- הָֽאַרְבֶּ֗ה1
- הָ֣אַרְבֶּ֔ה1
- הָֽאַרְבֶּ֣ה1
- הָאַרְבֶּ֖ה1
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 11
- the locust[s]7
- locust[s]6
- like the locust3
- [are] like the locust1
- [belongs] to the locust1
- a locust1
- for the locust[s]1
- like the locust[s]1
- more than locust[s]1
- the locust1
- to the locust1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular8
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular8
- noun · masculine singular7
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HRd/Ncmsa · 8
- HTd/Ncmsa · 8
- HNcmsa · 7
- HR/Ncmsa · 1
All 24, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Exodus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Exodus7 occurrences
- Exodus 10:4אַרְבֶּ֖הʾarbehnoun · masculine singularBut if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.here: locust[s]
- Exodus 10:12בָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔הbaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularThen 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.”here: for the locust[s]
- Exodus 10:13הָאַרְבֶּֽה׃haarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularSo Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.here: the locust[s]
- Exodus 10:14הָֽאַרְבֶּ֗הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularThe locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.here: the locust[s]
- Exodus 10:14אַרְבֶּה֙ʾarbehnoun · masculine singularThe locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.here: locust[s]
- Exodus 10:19הָ֣אַרְבֶּ֔הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularAnd the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.here: the locust[s]
- Exodus 10:19אַרְבֶּ֣הʾarbehnoun · masculine singularAnd the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.here: a locust
Leviticus1 occurrence
Deuteronomy1 occurrence
Judges2 occurrences
- Judges 6:5אַרְבֶּה֙ʾarbehnoun · masculine singularFor 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.here: locust[s]
- Judges 7:12כָּאַרְבֶּ֖הkaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularNow the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.here: like the locust[s]
Psalms3 occurrences
- Psalms 78:46לָאַרְבֶּֽה׃laarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularHe gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.here: to the locust
- Psalms 105:34אַרְבֶּ֑הʾarbehnoun · masculine singularHe spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.here: locust[s]
- Psalms 109:23כָּֽאַרְבֶּֽה׃kaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularI am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.here: like the locust
Proverbs1 occurrence
Joel3 occurrences
- Joel 1:4הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularWhat the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.here: the locust[s]
- Joel 1:4הָאַרְבֶּ֖הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularWhat the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.here: the locust[s]
- Joel 2:25הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularI will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust— My great army that I sent against you.here: the locust[s]
Nahum2 occurrences
- Nahum 3:15כָּאַרְבֶּֽה׃kaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularThere the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!here: like the locust
- Nahum 3:17כָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔הkaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularYour guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.here: [are] like the locust