Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4610: מַעֲלֵה עַקְרַבִּים

Maʻălêh ʻAqrabbîym · pronounced mah-al-ay' ak-rabbeem' · “Akrabbim”

Definition

Steep of Scorpions, a place in the Desert

KJV translates it as: Maaleh-accrabim, the ascent (going up) of Akrabbim.

Word origin: from H4608 (מַעֲלֶה) and (the plural of) H6137 (עַקְרָב);

Extended definition

§ Maaleh-acrabbim = "ascent of scorpions"
a pass on the southern border of Palestine
scorpion-pass; ascent of Akrabbim

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

How H4610 is translated

  • scorpions ×3
  • the ascent of ×1

Bible verses with H4610 (Maʻălêh ʻAqrabbîym)

Maʻălêh ʻaqrabbîym appears in 3 verses.

  • Numbers 34:4

    And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh–barnea, and shall go on to Hazar–addar, and pass on to Azmon:

  • Joshua 15:3

    And it went out to the south side to Maaleh–acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh–barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:

  • Judges 1:36

    And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.