Hebrew n · H703
אַרְבַּע
arbaar-bah'
four
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼarbaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H703is 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) · H703
{four}
The King James renders it: four.
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
arba is rendered "four". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 6:17For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.
Ezra 6:17אַרְבַּ֣ע
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
- four6
- and four2
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 |
| אַרְמוֹן | armon | citadel: palace | Uses32 |
| אַרְבֶּה | arbeh | locust | Uses24 |
| אַרְיֵה | aryeh | lion | Uses10 |
| אַרְכִּי | Arki | Archite | Uses6 |
| אַרְגָּז | argaz | box | Uses3 |
| אַרְגְּוָן | argevan | purple | Uses3 |
| אַרְכָּא | arka | lengthening | Uses2 |
| אַרְוָדִי | Arvadi | Arvadite | Uses2 |
| אַרְזָה | arzah | cedar | Uses1 |
and 6 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 8, 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
- אַרְבַּע֙1
- אַרְבַּ֛ע1
- אַרְבַּ֑ע1
- אַרְבַּ֣ע1
- אַרְבְּעָ֗ה1
- אַרְבְּעָ֥ה1
- וְאַרְבַּ֤ע1
- וְאַרְבְּעָ֤ה1
The grammar of each form
- number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular6AAcbsa
- conjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular2AC/Acbsa
Ezra
one use
For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.
- אַרְבַּ֣עʾarba'number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: four
Daniel
seven uses
“Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”
- אַרְבְּעָ֗הʾarbeahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: four
Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.
- אַרְבַּע֙ʾarba'number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: four
Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:
- וְאַרְבַּ֤עvearba'conjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and four
Next, as I watched, another beast appeared. It was like a leopard, and on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.
- אַרְבַּ֛עʾarba'number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: four
- וְאַרְבְּעָ֤הvearbeahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and four
‘These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.
- אַרְבַּ֑עʾarba'number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: four
- אַרְבְּעָ֥הʾarbeahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: four
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.