# H693 אָרַב

אָרַב (ʼârab), Strong’s H693: to lurk KJV: (lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.. Occurs 41 times.

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*ʼârab* — to lurk

KJV: (lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.

Occurs 41 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אָרַב vb. lie in wait
- Qal lie in wait (with hostile purpose)
- Pi. Pt. pl. liers-in-wait
- Hiph. Impf. but txt. dub.

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 19:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/19?v=11) — But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies…
- [Joshua 8:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=2) — 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…
- [Joshua 8:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=4) — He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from…
- [Joshua 8:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=7) — and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your…
- [Joshua 8:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=12) — He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
- [Joshua 8:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=14) — 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…
- [Joshua 8:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=19) — The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the…
- [Joshua 8:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=21) — When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they…
- [Judges 9:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=25) — 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…
- [Judges 9:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=32) — Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.