Hebrew noun (masculine) · H697
אַרְבֶּה
arbehar-beh'
locust
24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼarbeh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H697is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H697
a locust (from its rapid increase)
The King James renders it: grasshopper, locust.
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
arbeh is rendered "locust". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve 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 10:4But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
- The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.
The first use
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
Exodus 10:4אַרְבֶּ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's twenty-four uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the locust8
- locust6
- like the locust5
- to the locust2
- a locust1
- for the locust1
- more than locust1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַרְבַּע | arba | four | Uses318 |
| אַרְבָּעִים | arbaim | forty | Uses136 |
| אַרְגָּמָן | argaman | purple | Uses38 |
| אַרְיֵה | aryeh | lion | Uses10 |
| אַרְבַּע | arba | four | Uses8 |
| אַרְכִּי | Arki | Archite | Uses6 |
| אַרְגָּז | argaz | box | Uses3 |
| אַרְגְּוָן | argevan | purple | Uses3 |
| אַרְכָּא | arka | lengthening | Uses2 |
| אַרְוָדִי | Arvadi | Arvadite | Uses2 |
| אַרְזָה | arzah | cedar | Uses1 |
| אַרְבִּי | Arbi | Arbite | Uses1 |
and 5 more on the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 24, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
20 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
- אַרְבֶּה֙2
- אַרְבֶּ֤ה2
- הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה2
- הָאַרְבֶּֽה׃2
- אַרְבֶּ֑ה1
- אַרְבֶּ֖ה1
- אַרְבֶּ֣ה1
- בָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה1
- הָֽאַרְבֶּ֗ה1
- הָ֣אַרְבֶּ֔ה1
- הָֽאַרְבֶּ֣ה1
- הָאַרְבֶּ֖ה1
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular8HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular8HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular7HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Exodus
seven uses
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
- אַרְבֶּ֖הʾarbehnoun · masculine singulartagged: locust
Then 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.”
- בָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔הbaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the locust
So 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.
- הָאַרְבֶּֽה׃haarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
The 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.
- הָֽאַרְבֶּ֗הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
- אַרְבֶּה֙ʾarbehnoun · masculine singulartagged: locust
And 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.
- הָ֣אַרְבֶּ֔הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
- אַרְבֶּ֣הʾarbehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a locust
Leviticus
one use
Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
- הָֽאַרְבֶּ֣הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
Deuteronomy
one use
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
- הָאַרְבֶּֽה׃haarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
Judges
two uses
For 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.
- אַרְבֶּה֙ʾarbehnoun · masculine singulartagged: locust
Now 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.
- כָּאַרְבֶּ֖הkaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the locust
1 Kings
one use
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
- אַרְבֶּ֤הʾarbehnoun · masculine singulartagged: locust
2 Chronicles
one use
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
- אַרְבֶּ֤הʾarbehnoun · masculine singulartagged: locust
Job
one use
Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
- כָּאַרְבֶּ֑הkaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the locust
Psalms
three uses
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
- לָאַרְבֶּֽה׃laarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the locust
He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
- אַרְבֶּ֑הʾarbehnoun · masculine singulartagged: locust
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
- כָּֽאַרְבֶּֽה׃kaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the locust
Proverbs
one use
the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
- לָאַרְבֶּ֑הlaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the locust
Jeremiah
one use
They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.
- מֵֽאַרְבֶּ֔הmearbehpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: more than locust
Joel
three uses
What 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.
- הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
- הָאַרְבֶּ֖הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
I 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.
- הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔הhaarbehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
Nahum
two uses
There 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!
- כָּאַרְבֶּֽה׃kaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the locust
Your 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.
- כָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔הkaarbehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the locust
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.
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.