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אָרַב

Definition and meaning

arab (aw-rab') v. 1. to lurk [a primitive root] KJV: (lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.

Tagged KJV passages

40 matching verses - 42.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

2 Chronicles 20:22

And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

Matched English: ambushments
Ezra 8:31

Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

Matched English: wait
Job 31:9

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

Matched English: wait
Psalms 10:9

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

Matched English: wait, wait
Psalms 59:3

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Matched English: wait
Proverbs 1:11

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Matched English: wait
Proverbs 1:18

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Matched English: wait
Proverbs 7:12

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

Matched English: wait
Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Matched English: wait
Proverbs 23:28

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

Matched English: wait
Proverbs 24:15

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

Matched English: wait
Jeremiah 51:12

Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Matched English: ambushes
Lamentations 3:10

He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

Matched English: wait
Lamentations 4:19

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Matched English: wait
Hosea 7:6

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

Matched English: wait
Micah 7:2

The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Matched English: wait