# H4610 מַעֲלֵה עַקְרַבִּים

מַעֲלֵה עַקְרַבִּים (Maʻălêh ʻAqrabbîym), Strong’s H4610: Steep of Scorpions, a place in the Desert KJV: Maaleh-accrabim, the ascent (going up) of Akrabbim.. Occurs 6 times.

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*Maʻălêh ʻAqrabbîym* — Steep of Scorpions, a place in the Desert

KJV: Maaleh-accrabim, the ascent (going up) of Akrabbim.

Built from [מַעֲלֶה maʻăleh](https://besorah.bible/word/H4608) (an elevation) + [עַקְרָב ʻaqrâb](https://besorah.bible/word/H6137) (a scorpion)

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַעֲלֶה 19 n.m. ascent
- 1 ascent of hill or mt.; מ׳ עַקְרַבִּים = Scorpion-pass, on S. border of Pal.
- 2 of stairs; to a wall

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 34:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/34?v=4) — Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of…
- [Joshua 15:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/15?v=3) — and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh…
- [Judges 1:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=36) — The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.