H693Verb41 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
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- Joshua 8:2אֹרֵב
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.”
- Judges 9:25מְאָרְבִים
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.
- 1 Samuel 15:5וַיָּרֶב
Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.
- Psalm 10:9יֶאֱרֹב
He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
- Proverbs 1:11נֶאֶרְבָה
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
- Lamentations 3:10אֹרֵב
He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.