Strong H6160H6160Lעֲרָבָה

plain

One of the 6 senses of Strong H6160

Transliteration
‛ărâbâh
Pronunciation
ar-aw-baw'
Morphology
Proper Name of a Location with no gender

Definition

From H6150 (in the sense of sterility); a desert; especially (with the article prefixed) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea: - {Arabah} {champaign} {desert} {evening} {heaven} {plain} wilderness. See also H1026 .

Detailed definition


§ desert plain, steppe, desert, wilderness

In the Bible

Strong H6160L appears in 20 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • desert8
  • plain7
  • wilderness3
  • evening1
  • heaven1

First verses

  1. Joshua 4:13
    About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the Lord unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
  2. Joshua 5:10
    And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
  3. 2 Samuel 15:28
    See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
  4. 2 Samuel 17:16
    Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
  5. 2 Kings 25:5
    And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
  6. Job 24:5
    Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
  7. Job 39:6
    Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
  8. Psalms 68:4
    Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
  9. Isaiah 35:1
    The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
  10. Isaiah 35:6
    Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
  11. Isaiah 40:3
    The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
  12. Isaiah 41:19
    I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
  13. Isaiah 51:3
    For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
  14. Jeremiah 2:6
    Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
  15. Jeremiah 5:6
    Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
  16. Jeremiah 17:6
    For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
  17. Jeremiah 39:5
    But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
  18. Jeremiah 50:12
    Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
  19. Jeremiah 51:43
    Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
  20. Jeremiah 52:8
    But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
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