H693 אָרַב
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 41 KJV occurrences
אָרַב
ʼârab · aw-rab'
Definition
to lurk
KJV Renderings
(lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 41)
- Deuteronomy 19:11¶ But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
- Joshua 8:14¶ And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
- Judges 9:34¶ And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
- Judges 20:29And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
- Judges 20:38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
- Ezra 8:31¶ Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
- Proverbs 1:11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
- Proverbs 24:15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place: