Strong H3993מַאֲרָב
ambush
- Transliteration
- ma'ărâb
- Pronunciation
- mah-ar-awb'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H693; an ambuscade: - lie in {ambush} {ambushment} lurking {place} lying in wait.
Detailed definition
1) ambush, (hunter's) blind
1a) ambush, lurking place
1b) liers-in-wait
1a) ambush, lurking place
1b) liers-in-wait
In the Bible
Strong H3993 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- ambushment1
- lie1
- place1
- wait1
First verses
- Joshua 8:9Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth–el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
- Judges 9:35And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.
- 2 Chronicles 13:13But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
- Psalms 10:8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.