STRONGS NUMBER H3993


Word Summary
maarab: an ambush
Original Word: מַאֲרָב
Transliteration: maarab
Phonetic Spelling: (mah-ar-awb')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: an ambush
Meaning: an ambuscade
Strong's Concordance
lie in ambush, ambush, lurking place, lying in wait

From 'arab; an ambuscade -- lie in ambush, ambushment, lurking place, lying in wait.

see HEBREW 'arab

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3993. maarab

מַאֲרָבnoun masculine ambushמַאֲרָב‎? Joshua 8:9 2t.; מַאְ֯רָבJudges 9:35; construct מַאֲרַבPsalm 10:8; —

1. a. ambush, place of lying-in-wait Joshua 8:9; Judges 9:35;

b. lurking-place Psalm 10:8 ("" מִסְתָּרִים‎).

2 liers-in-wait2 Chronicles 13:13 (twice in verse) (compare ארבParticiple)

אַרְבֵאל‎ compare אַרְבֵאל בֵּית‎, below בית‎.

אַרְבֶּה‎ see below רבה‎.

אַרְבָּעִים אַרְבַּ֫עַת, אַרְבָּעָה, אַרְבַּע,‎ etc. see רבע‎.