Bible Names

Arba: meaning of the name

Arba means “four.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Arba in Hebrew and Greek

אַרְבַּע H704

ʼArbaʻ (ar-bah') — Arba, one of the Anakim

the same as H702 (אַרְבַּע);

Who named Arba in the Bible

Arba in Scripture

“Arba” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 14:15

    And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath–arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

  • Joshua 15:13

    And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.

  • Joshua 21:11

    And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.