aruba · window, floodgate

What it means

aruba (אֲרֻבָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “window, floodgate”.

Window, lattice, floodgate. "The floodgates of the heavens" is the image of a torrential rain.

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. An opening in a house wall through which light and air come in.
2. The openings of the sky through which rain falls.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• floodgates ×6
• windows ×2
• window ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 2 Kings×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2
• Hosea×1
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 7:11

  In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

• Genesis 8:2

  And the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was held back.

• 2 Kings 7:2

  The captain on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of Elohim and said, “Look, even if YHWH were making floodgates in the heavens, could this thing happen?” He said, “Look, you will see it with your own eyes, but from there you will not eat.”

• 2 Kings 7:19

  The captain had answered the man of Elohim and said, “Look, even if YHWH were making floodgates in the heavens, could there be anything like this?” And he said, “Look, you will see it with your own eyes, but from there you will not eat.”

• Ecclesiastes 12:3

  on the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the men of vigor stoop, and those who grind cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows grow dark,

• Isaiah 24:18

  And it will happen: the one who flees from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up out of the middle of the pit will be caught in the snare; for the floodgates on high have been opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.

• Isaiah 60:8

  Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

• Hosea 13:3

  Therefore they will be like a morning cloud, and like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that is swept by the storm from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a window.

• Malachi 3:10

  Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and test me, please, in this, says YHWH Tsevaot, if I will not open for you the floodgates of the heavens and pour out on you blessing until there is no more need.