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title: אֲרֻבָּה — lattice · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲרֻבָּה (699), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: lattice. BDB 1906: n.f. lattice, window, sluice. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲרֻבָּה

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«אֲרֻבָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lattice** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 699 · **BDB:** אֲרֻבָּה

### Glosses

windows (5); the.windows (3); a.window (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lattice [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/699/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. lattice, window, sluice [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/699/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lattice, window, sluice (Mish. id.)—א׳ Ho 13:3; pl. אֲרֻבּוֹת 2 K 7:2 +, cstr. id. Mal 3:10; אֲרֻבֹּת Gn 7:11; 8:2; אֲרֻבֹּתֵיהֶם Is 60:8;—lattice, latticed opening, where smoke escaped Ho 13:3; openings of dove-cote Is 60:8; metaph. of eyes Ec 12:3 (as latticed by lashes? Hi Now; only here of opening to look through); elsewhere of sluices in sky, opened by י׳, through which rain pours destructively, א׳ הַשָּׁמַיִם Gn 7:11; 8:2, cf. Is 24:18 (א׳ מִמָּרוֹם); fig. of abundance 2 K 7:2, 19; (א׳ בשׁמים); of blessing Mal 3:10 (א׳ השׁמים).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲרֻבָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/699/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 60:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.60.8/)

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מִי־אֵ֖לֶּה כָּעָ֣ב תְּעוּפֶ֑ינָה וְכַיּוֹנִ֖ים אֶל־אֲרֻבֹּתֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* who? \[are\].these like (the) cloud they.fly and like (the) doves to windows their

*JPS 1917:* Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their cotes?

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[Genesis 8:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.2/)

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וַיִּסָּֽכְרוּ֙ מַעְיְנֹ֣ת תְּה֔וֹם וַֽאֲרֻבֹּ֖ת הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וַיִּכָּלֵ֥א הַגֶּ֖שֶׁם מִן־הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.shut.up the.springs of.the.deep and the.windows of the.heavens and it.was.restrained the rain from the heavens

*JPS 1917:* the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

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