אַרְבֶּה
Used: 24 times · Key: 697 · BDB: אַרְבֶּה²
Glosses
locust[s] (13); locust (7); a.locust (1)
Meaning (OSHB)
locust tree →
Meaning (BDB 1906)
n.m. locust tree →
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.
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.
In the verses
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,
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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