{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H693",
  "lemma": "אָרַב",
  "transliteration": "ʼârab",
  "definition": "to lurk",
  "kjv": "(lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.",
  "occurrences": 41,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "אָרַב vb. lie in wait",
    "Qal lie in wait (with hostile purpose)",
    "Pi. Pt. pl. liers-in-wait",
    "Hiph. Impf. but txt. dub."
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 19:11",
      "text": "But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/19?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 8:2",
      "text": "You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 8:4",
      "text": "He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 8:7",
      "text": "and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 8:12",
      "text": "He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 8:14",
      "text": "When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 8:19",
      "text": "The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 8:21",
      "text": "When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 9:25",
      "text": "The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 9:32",
      "text": "Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=32"
    }
  ],
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