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title: אַרְבֶּה — locust · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַרְבֶּה (697), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 24 times: locust. BDB 1906: n.m. locust. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַרְבֶּה

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«אַרְבֶּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **locust** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 24 times · **Key:** 697 · **BDB:** אַרְבֶּה²

### Glosses

locust\[s\] (13); locust (7); a.locust (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

locust [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/697/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. locust [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/697/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 10:19 a kind of locust (usually interp. as the multitudinous, but DlHWB 126 as = Assyrian âribu, êribu, êribû, locust-swarm, from ארב devastate);—always abs. (הָ)א׳;—usually coll. locust-swarm, in sim. of swarm of invaders Ju 6:5; 7:12; often appar. the common species (‖ other species, cf. לְמִינוֹ Lv 11:22): Je 46:23; Na 3:15 (sim. of multitude; ‖ יֶלֶק); as destructive Ex 10:4, 12, 13, 14(×2), 19a (all J), ψ 105:34 (‖ יֶלֶק), Dt 28:38 (vb. חסל), 1 K 8:37 = 2 Ch 6:28, ψ 78:46 (all + חָסִיל), Jo 1:4(×2) (‖ גָּזָם, יֶלֶק, חָסִיל), 2:25 (‖ id.); as disappearing suddenly (sim.) Na 3:17 (‖ גּוֹב גּוֹבַי); as edible Lv 11:22 (H; ‖ סָלְעָם, חַרְגֹּל, חָגָב); as well organized Pr 30:27 (cf. Jo 2:7, 8); of single locust, א׳ אֶחָד Ex 10:19b (J), as leaping (sim.) Jb 39:20, as shaken out of garment (sim.) ψ 109:23 (v. II. נָעַר).—Cf. Dr Jo 82 ff.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַרְבֶּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/697/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 105:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.34/)

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אָ֭מַר וַיָּבֹ֣א אַרְבֶּ֑ה וְ֝יֶ֗לֶק וְאֵ֣ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* he.spoke and it.came locust\[s\] and locust\[s\] and there.\[was\].not a.number

*JPS 1917:* He spoke, and the locust came, and the canker-worm without number,

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[Job 39:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.20/)

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הְֽ֭תַרְעִישֶׁנּוּ כָּאַרְבֶּ֑ה ה֖וֹד נַחְר֣וֹ אֵימָֽה׃

*Word for word:* do you make.it.leap? like (the) locust the.majesty its.snorting his \[is\].terror

*JPS 1917:* Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrible.

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