אַרְבֶּהʼarbeh
a locust (from its rapid increase)
Pronunciation: ar-beh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H697
Meanings
a kind of locust, usually interpreted as the multitudinous, usually collective locust-swarm (Exodus 10:19; Judges 6:5; Judges 7:12; Leviticus 11:22; Jeremiah 46:23)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 24 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 10:4 If you refuse, watch out! For tomorrow I will bring a swarm of locusts on your country.
- Exodus 10:12 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Raise your hand over the land of Egypt to bring on the locusts. Let them cover the land and devour every plant that survived the hailstorm.”
- Exodus 10:13 So Moses raised his staff over Egypt, and the Lord caused an east wind to blow over the land all that day and through the night. When morning arrived, the east wind had brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:14 And the locusts swarmed over the whole land of Egypt, settling in dense swarms from one end of the country to the other. It was the worst locust plague in Egyptian history, and there has never been another one like it.
- Exodus 10:19 The Lord responded by shifting the wind, and the strong west wind blew the locusts into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained in all the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 11:22 The insects you are permitted to eat include all kinds of locusts, bald locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).