Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H3993: מַאֲרָב

maʼărâb · pronounced mah-ar-awb' · “ambush”

Definition

an ambuscade

KJV translates it as: lie in ambush, ambushment, lurking place, lying in wait.

Word origin: from H693 (אָרַב);

Extended definition

1) ambush, (hunter's) blind
1a) ambush, lurking place
1b) liers-in-wait

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H3993 is translated

  • ambush ×4
  • an ambush of ×1

Bible verses with H3993 (maʼărâb)

Maʼărâb appears in 4 verses.

  • Joshua 8:9

    Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth–el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

  • Judges 9:35

    And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.

  • 2 Chronicles 13:13

    But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

  • Psalms 10:8

    He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.