אַרְבִּי
Arbite
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H701 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Samuel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Arbite” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name ארבי (ʼArbîy). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 2 Samuel. Its lone occurrence is 2 Samuel 23:35. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H701 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Samuel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Arbite 1×
- American Standard Version: Arbite 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Arbite 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Arbite 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H701 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H701 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Arbite = "an ambush"
- a native of Arabia
Word origin
אַרְבִּי adj.gent. הָא׳ 2 S 23:35 (but cf. Dr).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ארב (ʼĂrâb) (H694) — Arab.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַרְבָּא I
- (ארב to join, cmp. ארגז, תיבה) boat. B. Mets. 101ᵇ א׳ דחמרא a boat-load of wine; a. fr.—Gitt. 6ᵃ; Kidd. 72ᵃ א׳ תנייתא וכ׳ Ar. ed. Koh. (ed. תניינא) to the second boat of the (floating) bridge; cmp. Kidd. l. c. והאידנא וכ׳ ‘and now the Persians placed the bridge higher up’. [Oth. opin., v. אֲרַבְתָּא.]—Pl. אַרְבֵּי. B. Mets. 72ᵇ חיטי … וא׳ the wheat in granaries and ships.
רְבֵי
- 1. to grow, increase; to become great. Targ. Gen. XXI, 8. Targ. Hos. VIII, 4 רְבִיאוּ ed. Ven. (oth. ed. רַבִּי׳ Pa.). Targ. Job V, 6 (some ed. יְרַבֵּי Pa.); a. fr.—Part. רָבֵי; pl. רַבְיָין. Targ. O. Gen. XXVI, 13 (Y. רְבֵי). Targ. Ps. CXLIV, 12 (h. text מגדלים); a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 78 (ref. to Gen. XLIX, 22, בן פרת) רַבְיַית יוסף thou didst grow, O Joseph; רביית עלי עין thou didst grow over (Esau’s) sight (so as to protect Rachel from Esau’s voluptuous looks); v. preced. Gen. R. s. 20 דרָבוּן עמיה (דרַבְיָן) they grow up with him; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 49:22
- 1. same, v. supra.—2)
- to raise, rear, produce. Targ. Y. Gen. II, 9. Targ. Koh. II, 6. Targ. Ps. CXLVII, 8. Targ. Job XXXVIII, 27 מְרַבְּיָא Ms. (ed. מַרְבְּיָא Af.; ed. Wil. מִרְבְּ׳, incorr.). Targ. Is. XVII, 6 מְרַבָּה Levita (ed. מרדא); a. fr.—Lev. R. s. 19 לא תְרַבֵּי, v. גּוּרָא. Ab. Zar. 22ᵇ ארמלתא לא תְרַבֵּי וכ׳ a widow should not raise a dog. Cant. R. to I, 1 מְרַבְּיָין ולא וכ׳ raise children that are not like them; Yalk. Sam. 113 מְרַבְּיָאן, v. דִּכְוָת־; a. e.—Part. pass. מְרַבֵּי. Targ. O. Gen. XXXVII, 2 (ed. Berl. רָבֵי); a. e.
- 2. to raise to dignity, advance, elevate, anoint (priest, king &c.), appoint. Targ. O. Ex. XXXI, 2 (h. text קרא). Targ. Is. XLII, 6. Targ. Esth. X, 2. Targ. Ps. II, 6 (h. text נסך); a. fr.—Part. pass. מְרַבָּא, מְרַבֵּי. Targ. II Sam. III, 39 (h. text משוח). Targ. Ez. XXVIII, 14 (h. text ממשח).—Trnsf. (of inanimate things) to consecrate (by anointing). Targ. Ex. XXX, 26. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXI, 13 (ed. Vien. רִיבִיתָ, incorr.); a. e.
- 3. to lend or borrow on usury. Targ. O. Deut. XXIII, 20 (Y. ed. Vien. לא תַרְבֵּי וכ׳ add not from what is thine to thy neighbor’s, i.e. borrow not on usury, v. Rashi a. l.).
- 4. to extend the scope, to include. Snh. 46ᵃ לרַבּוּיֵי עכו"ם to include the worshippers of idols; לרבויי שאר וכ׳ to include other convicts doomed to be stoned. Ib. לא הוה מְרַבִּינָן וכ׳ we should have included only &c. B. Kam. 64ᵇ מאי ר׳ וכ׳ what does the text imply? It implies all things (animate or inanimate, marked or unmarked). Zeb. 8ᵇ כללא קמא מְרַבֵּי וכ׳ the first generalization serves to include sacrifices and no more; a. fr.
- same, to increase, add. Targ. Y. Deut. XXIII, 20, v. supra.
- 1. to be reared, grow up. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXVII, 2. Targ. I Chr. XIV, 4; a. fr.
- 2. to be raised; to be installed, anointed. Targ. Is. LXI, 9. Targ. O. Lev. XXI, 10. Targ. Y. ib. IV, 3. Targ. Num. III, 3; a. fr.
- 3. to be proud, vaunt. Y. Sabb. VI, 7ᵈ bot. טליין … מִתְרַבְּיָין וכ׳ young children were boasting (showing off their silver ornaments) in the court of &c.; Y. Bets. II, end, 61ᵃ מתריביין (corr. acc.).
- 4. to be lent or borrowed on usury. Targ. Deut. XXIII, 20.
- 5. to be derived by implication, be included. Zeb. 82ᵃ מכדי אִיתְרַבּוּ כל וכ׳ since all sacrifices … were included in the law with regard to &c.; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Arbite). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
a native of Arab. Paarai the Arbite was one of David's guard. (2 Samuel 23:35)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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