arba · four

What it means

arba (אַרְבַּע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “four”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The quantity after three: four sides, four parts or four units.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Four.

• The number four Genesis 2:10Ezekiel 1:5
• “The four winds”: the four directions Ezekiel 37:9
• In larger figures: “four hundred years” Genesis 15:13

How we translate it

“Four” 257 times, “fourteen” 21, “fourteenth” 21, “fourth” 12. The English form depends on the number it goes with. אַרְבַּע רוּחוֹת is translated “the four winds”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• four ×257
• fourteen ×21
• fourteenth ×21
• fourth ×12
• all fours ×4
• forty-two thousand three hundred sixty ×2
• apiece ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×15
• Exodus×38
• Leviticus×6
• Numbers×37
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×12
• Judges×7
• 1 Samuel×6
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×22
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×36
• 2 Chronicles×11
• Ezra×10
• Nehemiah×10
• Esther×5
• Job×3
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×52
• Daniel×7
• Amos×8
• Haggai×4
• Zechariah×8

• Genesis 2:10

  And a river went out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four branches.

• Genesis 11:13

  After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:15

  After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 11:16

  Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg.

• Genesis 11:17

  After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 14:5

  In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

• Genesis 14:9

  against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.

• Genesis 15:13

  Then he said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be resident aliens in a land that is not theirs, and they will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.

• Genesis 23:15

  “My lord, hear me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, between me and you, what is that? So bury your dead.”

• Genesis 23:16

  Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current among the merchants.

• Genesis 31:41

  These twenty years I have had in your house: I served you fourteen years for the two of your daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

• Genesis 32:6

  The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

• Genesis 33:1

  Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and look, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women.

• Genesis 46:22

  These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob; all the persons were fourteen.

• Genesis 47:24

  And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours, as seed for the field and as your food and for those in your households, and as food for your little ones.”

• Exodus 12:6

  You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the community of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.

• Exodus 12:18

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening.

• Exodus 12:40

  The time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

• Exodus 12:41

  At the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on that very day, all the armies of YHWH went out from the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 22:1

  When a man steals an ox or a lamb and slaughters it or sells it, he shall repay five cattle for the ox and four sheep for the lamb.

• Exodus 25:12

  You shall cast for it four rings of gold and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.

• Exodus 25:26

  You shall make for it four rings of gold and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four feet.

• Exodus 25:34

  And on the lampstand itself four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its knobs and its flowers;

• Exodus 26:2

  The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for all the curtains.

• Exodus 26:8

  The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for the eleven curtains.

• Exodus 26:32

  You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks of gold, on four bases of silver.

• Exodus 27:2

  You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

• Exodus 27:4

  You shall make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and you shall make on the network four rings of bronze at its four corners.

• Exodus 27:16

  For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, their pillars four and their bases four.

• Exodus 28:17

  You shall fill it with a setting of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and emerald shall be the first row;

• Exodus 36:9

  The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width four cubits for each curtain; one measure for all the curtains.

• Exodus 36:15

  The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain; one measure for the eleven curtains.

• Exodus 36:36

  And he made for it four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four bases of silver.

• Exodus 37:3

  And he cast for it four rings of gold on its four feet, and two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side.

• Exodus 37:13

  And he cast for it four rings of gold and put the rings on the four corners that were at its four legs.

• Exodus 37:20

  And on the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its knobs and its flowers.

• Exodus 38:2

  And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it; and he overlaid it with bronze.

• Exodus 38:5

  And he cast four rings on the four corners of the grating of bronze, as holders for the poles.

• Exodus 38:19

  And their pillars were four and their bases four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their rods of silver.

• Exodus 38:29

  And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

And 278 more times.