Strong's Hebrew · H699

H699 ʼărubbâh

אֲרֻבָּה

ar-oob-baw'

window

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ʼărubbâh appears 9 times in Scripture, in Genesis, 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Hosea and Malachi. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a lattice; (by implication) a window, dovecot (because of the pigeon-holes), chimney (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water)

In the King James Version

chimney, window.

Derivation

feminine participle passive of H693 (אָרַב) (as if for lurking);

Appears 9 times in Scripture

Malachi 3:10

“Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.”

2 Kings 7:2

“But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.””

Genesis 8:2

“The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.”

2 Kings 7:19

“And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!””

Isaiah 60:8

“Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?”

Isaiah 24:18

“Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.”

Ecclesiastes 12:3

“on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,”

Genesis 7:11

“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.”

Hosea 13:3

“Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.”

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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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