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אַרְבֶּה H697
H697 is the Hebrew word אַרְבֶּה, transliterated ʼarbeh and said ar-beh'. The King James Version most often renders it locusts.
What it means
a locust (from its rapid increase).
Where it comes from
from H7235 (רָבָה).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 20 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: grasshopper, locust.
Verses using אַרְבֶּה
All 17 verses, quoted in full.
Exodus 10:4 · KJV
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
Exodus 10:12 · KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
Exodus 10:14 · KJV
And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exodus 10:19 · KJV
And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Leviticus 11:22 · KJV
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Deuteronomy 28:38 · KJV
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Judges 6:5 · KJV
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
Judges 7:12 · KJV
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
1 Kings 8:37 · KJV
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
2 Chronicles 6:28 · KJV
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
Job 39:20 · KJV
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
Psalm 105:34 · KJV
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
Proverbs 30:27 · KJV
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Jeremiah 46:23 · KJV
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
Joel 1:4 · KJV
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
Joel 2:25 · KJV
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Nahum 3:17 · KJV
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Common questions
What does Strong's H697 mean?
H697 is the Hebrew word אַרְבֶּה (ʼarbeh), meaning a locust (from its rapid increase).
How is H697 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it locusts (9 times), locust (7 times), grasshoppers (1 time), like grasshoppers (1 time), grasshopper (1 time), among others.
How many times does H697 appear in the Bible?
אַרְבֶּה (ʼarbeh) is tagged in 17 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H697 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: from H7235 (רָבָה).
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