אָרַב

If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:11

• וְאָ֤רַבvearavHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will lie in wait

And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”

Joshua 8:2

• אֹרֵ֛בʾorevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: an ambush

with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.

Joshua 8:4

• אֹרְבִ֤יםʾorevimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: lying in wait

you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

Joshua 8:7

• מֵהָ֣אוֹרֵ֔בmehaorevpreposition + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: from the ambush

Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Joshua 8:12

• אֹרֵ֗בʾorevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: an ambush

When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.

Joshua 8:14

• אֹרֵ֥בʾorevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: an ambush

and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

Joshua 8:19

• וְהָאוֹרֵ֡בvehaorevconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the ambush

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

Joshua 8:21

• הָֽאֹרֵב֙haorevthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the ambush

The leaders of Shechem set up an ambush against Abimelech on the hilltops, and they robbed all who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.

Judges 9:25

• מְאָרְבִ֗יםmearevimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: ambushers

Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.

Judges 9:32

• וֶאֱרֹ֖בveeroconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and lie in wait

So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

Judges 9:34

• וַיֶּאֶרְב֣וּvaiyeervuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they lay in wait

So he took his men, divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose up against them and attacked them.

Judges 9:43

• וַיֶּאֱרֹ֖בvaiyeeroHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he lay in wait

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

Judges 16:2

• וַיֶּאֶרְבוּ־vaiyeervu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they lay in wait

While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.

Judges 16:9

• וְהָאֹרֵ֗בvehaorevconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the ambusher

So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.

Judges 16:12

• וְהָאֹרֵ֖בvehaorevconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the ambusher

So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

Judges 20:29

• אֹֽרְבִ֔יםʾorevimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: ambushers

So all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.

Judges 20:33

• וְאֹרֵ֧בveorevconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and ambusher of

Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.

Judges 20:36

• הָ֣אֹרֵ֔בhaorevthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the ambusher

The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.

Judges 20:37

• וְהָאֹרֵ֣בvehaorevconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the ambusher
• הָאֹרֵ֔בhaorevthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the ambusher

The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,

Judges 20:38

• הָאֹרֵ֑בhaorevthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the ambusher

So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards

Judges 21:20

• וַאֲרַבְתֶּ֥םvaaravtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will lie in wait

Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.

1 Samuel 15:5

• וַיָּ֖רֶבvaiyarevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he lay in wait

Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”

1 Samuel 22:8

• לְאֹרֵ֖בleorevpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: to an ambusher

And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”

1 Samuel 22:13

• לְאֹרֵ֖בleorevpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: to an ambusher

The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.

2 Chronicles 20:22

• מְ֠אָֽרְבִיםmearevimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: ambushers

On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.

Ezra 8:31

• וְאוֹרֵ֖בveorevconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and from an ambusher

If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

Job 31:9

• אָרָֽבְתִּי׃ʾaravetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have lain in wait

He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

Psalms 10:9

• יֶאֱרֹ֬בyeeroverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he lies in wait
• יֶ֭אֱרֹבyeeroverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he lies in wait

See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.

Psalms 59:3

• אָֽרְב֡וּʾarevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they lie in wait

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Proverbs 1:11

• נֶאֶרְבָ֥הneervahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us lie in wait

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 1:18

• יֶאֱרֹ֑בוּyeerouverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they lie in wait

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

Proverbs 7:12

• תֶאֱרֹֽב׃teeroverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she lies in wait

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Proverbs 12:6

• אֱרָב־ʾerov-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to lie in wait for

Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

Proverbs 23:28

• תֶּֽאֱרֹ֑בteeroverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she lies in wait

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

Proverbs 24:15

• תֶּאֱרֹ֣בteeroverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you lie in wait

Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:12

• הָאֹֽרְבִ֑יםhaorevimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the ambushers

He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

Lamentations 3:10

• אֹרֵ֥בʾorevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: lying in wait

Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:19

• אָ֥רְבוּʾarevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they lay in wait

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Micah 7:2

• יֶאֱרֹ֔בוּyeerouverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they lie in wait