Strong's Hebrew · H696

H696 ʼôreb

אֹרֶב

o'-reb

ambush

Looking for Greek G696 árgyros? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H696. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

ʼôreb appears twice in Scripture, in Jeremiah 9:8 and Hosea 7:6. In the Doxa app, open each of these verses, keep your notes on them, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

In the King James Version

wait.

Derivation

the same as H695 (אֶרֶב)

Appears 2 times in Scripture

Hosea 7:6

“For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.”

Jeremiah 9:8

“Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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