Strong's Hebrew · H3993
מַאֲרָב
maʼărâb · mah-ar-awb'
Definitionan ambuscade
Derivationfrom H693 (אָרַב);
KJV usagelie in ambush, ambushment, lurking place, lying in wait.
Occurrences5 in the KJV · 4 verses
מַאֲרָב in Scripture
Joshua 8:9
Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
Judges 9:35
And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.
2 Chronicles 13:13
But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
Psalms 10:8
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.