Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6157
עָרֹב
arobaw-robe'
swarm
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻârôb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6157is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6157
a mosquito (from its swarming)
The King James renders it: divers sorts of flies, swarm.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
arob is rendered "swarm". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 8:21But if you will not let My people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even the ground where they stand will be full of flies.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
But if you will not let My people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even the ground where they stand will be full of flies.
Exodus 8:21הֶעָרֹ֑ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the swarm5
- a swarm2
- a swarm of flies2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עָרֹ֑ב2
- הֶעָרֹ֑ב1
- הֶ֣עָרֹ֔ב1
- הֶעָרֹ֗ב1
- הֶעָרֹ֔ב1
- הֶעָרֹֽב׃1
- עָ֭רֹב1
- עָרֹ֣ב1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
Exodus
seven uses
But if you will not let My people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even the ground where they stand will be full of flies.
- הֶעָרֹ֑בhearothe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarm
- הֶ֣עָרֹ֔בhearothe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarm
But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I, the LORD, am in the land.
- עָרֹ֑בaronoun · masculine singulartagged: a swarm
And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by swarms of flies.
- עָרֹ֣בaronoun · masculine singulartagged: a swarm
- הֶעָרֹֽב׃hearothe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarm
“As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”
- הֶעָרֹ֗בhearothe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarm
and the LORD did as Moses requested. He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not one fly remained.
- הֶעָרֹ֔בhearothe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarm
Psalms
two uses
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
- עָ֭רֹבaronoun · masculine singulartagged: a swarm of flies
He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.
- עָרֹ֑בaronoun · masculine singulartagged: a swarm of flies
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.