arbe · locust

What it means

arbe (אַרְבֶּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “locust”.

An insect that comes in huge swarms and devours everything green.

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 insect that comes in swarms and eats all green things.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• locust ×15
• locusts ×9

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×7
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Joel×3
• Nahum×2

• Exodus 10:4

  For if you refuse to let my people go, look, tomorrow I am bringing locusts into your territory.

• Exodus 10:12

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, all that the hail has left.”

• Exodus 10:13

  So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and YHWH drove an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; when it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.

• Exodus 10:14

  The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt, very heavy; before them there had never been such locusts as these, nor will there be such after them.

• Exodus 10:19

  And YHWH turned it into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Sea of Reeds; not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

• Leviticus 11:22

  These of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.

• Deuteronomy 28:38

  Much seed you will carry out to the field, and little you will gather, for the locust will consume it.

• Judges 6:5

  For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, and they would come like locusts in multitude; both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

• Judges 7:12

  Midian and Amalek and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley like locusts in multitude; and their camels were without number, like the sand that is on the shore of the sea in multitude.

• 1 Kings 8:37

  If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper, if there are these; if his enemy besieges him in the land of his gates; any sore, any sickness;

• 2 Chronicles 6:28

  When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there are blight and mildew, locust and hopper; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; any sore and any sickness;

• Job 39:20

  Do you make him leap like the locust? The splendor of his snorting is terror.

• Psalms 78:46

  And he gave to the hopper their produce, and their labor to the locust.

• Psalms 105:34

  He spoke, and there came locusts, and young locusts, without number,

• Psalms 109:23

  Like a shadow when it stretches out I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.

• Proverbs 30:27

  the locust has no king, and it goes out all of it in ranks;

• Jeremiah 46:23

  They have cut down her forest, declares YHWH, though it cannot be searched out; for they are more numerous than the locust, and they have no number.

• Joel 1:4

  What the cutting locust left, the locust has eaten; and what the locust left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust left, the hopping locust has eaten.

• Joel 2:25

  And I will repay you for the years that the locust has eaten, the young locust, and the hopping locust, and the cutting locust, my great army that I sent among you.

• Nahum 3:15

  There fire will devour you, the sword will cut you off; it will devour you like the young locust. Multiply yourself like the young locust, multiply yourself like the locust.

• Nahum 3:17

  Your guards are like the locust, and your officials like a swarm of grasshoppers that camp in the walls on a day of cold; the sun rises, and they flee, and their place is not known; where are they?

And 3 more times.