1) to lie in wait, ambush, lurk 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lie in wait 1a2) ambush (participle as subst) 1b) (Piel) ambushers, liers-in-wait (pl. participle) 1c) (Hiphil) to lay an ambush
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H693 — אָרַב
a.rav · to ambush · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Deuteronomy 19:11 · וְאָ֤רַבBut if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;Joshua 8:2 · אֹרֵ֛בYou shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”Joshua 8:4 · אֹרְבִ֤יםHe commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.Joshua 8:7 · מֵהָ֣אוֹרֵ֔בand you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.Joshua 8:12 · אֹרֵ֗בHe took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.Joshua 8:14 · אֹרֵ֥בIt happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.Joshua 8:19 · וְהָאוֹרֵ֡בThe ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.Joshua 8:21 · הָֽאֹרֵב֙When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.Judges 9:25 · מְאָרְבִ֗יםThe men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.Judges 9:32 · וֶאֱרֹ֖בNow therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:Judges 9:34 · וַיֶּאֶרְב֣וּAbimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.Judges 9:43 · וַיֶּאֱרֹ֖בHe took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.Judges 16:2 · וַיֶּאֶרְבוּ־The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light, then we will kill him.”Judges 16:9 · וְהָאֹרֵ֗בNow she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.Judges 16:12 · וְהָאֹרֵ֖בSo Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.Judges 20:29 · אֹֽרְבִ֔יםIsrael set ambushes all around Gibeah.Judges 20:33 · וְאֹרֵ֧בAll the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the ambushers of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.Judges 20:36 · הָ֣אֹרֵ֔בSo the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.Judges 20:37 · וְהָאֹרֵ֣ב · הָאֹרֵ֔בThe ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the ambushers drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.Judges 20:38 · הָאֹרֵ֑בNow the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.Judges 21:20 · וַאֲרַבְתֶּ֥םThey commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,1 Samuel 15:5 · וַיָּ֖רֶבSaul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.1 Samuel 22:8 · לְאֹרֵ֖בthat all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”1 Samuel 22:13 · לְאֹרֵ֖בSaul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”2 Chronicles 20:22 · מְ֠אָֽרְבִיםWhen they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.Ezra 8:31 · וְאוֹרֵ֖בThen we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.Job 31:9 · אָרָֽבְתִּי׃“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,Psalm 10:9 · יֶאֱרֹ֬ב · יֶ֭אֱרֹבHe lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.Psalm 59:3 · אָֽרְב֡וּFor, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.Proverbs 1:11 · נֶאֶרְבָ֥הIf they say, “Come with us, Let’s lay in wait for blood; let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;Proverbs 1:18 · יֶאֱרֹ֑בוּbut these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.Proverbs 7:12 · תֶאֱרֹֽב׃Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.Proverbs 12:6 · אֱרָב־The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.Proverbs 23:28 · תֶּֽאֱרֹ֑בYes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.Proverbs 24:15 · תֶּאֱרֹ֣בDon’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place:Jeremiah 51:12 · הָאֹֽרְבִ֑יםSet up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.Lamentations 3:10 · אֹרֵ֥בHe is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.Lamentations 4:19 · אָ֥רְבוּOur pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.Micah 7:2 · יֶאֱרֹ֔בוּThe godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.