Hebrew noun (masculine) · H696
אֹרֶב
orebo'-reb
ambush
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼôreb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H696is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H696
{ambuscade}
The King James renders it: wait.
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
oreb is rendered "ambush". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Jeremiah 9:8Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
Jeremiah 9:8אָרְבּֽוֹ׃
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
- ambush his1
- in ambush their1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֹרֶךְ | orek | length | Uses95 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- אָרְבּֽוֹ׃1
- בְּאָרְבָּ֑ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3mp
Jeremiah
one use
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
- אָרְבּֽוֹ׃ʾarebonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ambush his
Hosea
one use
For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
- בְּאָרְבָּ֑םbearebampreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: in ambush their
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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.