STRONGS NUMBER H709


Word Summary
Argob: Argob
Original Word: אַרְגֹּב
Transliteration: Argob
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-gobe')
Part of Speech: proper name; location; masculine
Short Definition: Argob
Meaning: Argob
Strong's Concordance
Argob

From the same as regeb; stony; Argob, a district of Palestine -- Argob.

see HEBREW regeb

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H709. Argob

אַרְגֹּבproper name

1. location (heap, or region of clods; 'glede' GASmG551); — always א ׳חֶבֶלDeuteronomy 3:4, 14; 1 Kings 4:13, ׳ח ׳הָאDeuteronomy 3:13; = measured region of Argob; some well-defined district of Bashan (apparently identification with יָאִיר חַוֺת3:14 [where ׳ח ׳י‎ in Bashan, so Joshua 13:30], but this a harmonistic correction; ׳ח ׳י‎ in fact in Gilead [Numbers 32:41; Judges 10:4, and distinguished from אַרְגֹּב1 Kings 4:13 compare Deuteronomy 3:13); exact location dubious, GASml.c. and especially Dr3:4; BuhlGeogr.18 thinks of ‚uwet, south of Upper Yarmuk, a border district between Bashan and Gilead. — Αρσοβ; 1 Kings 4:13 Ερεβαταμ, ᵐ5L Πασαβαν, A Ερσαβ.

2. masculine 2 Kings 15:25, Αρσοβ dubious; see Klo Kit Benz Bur.