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Strong's H6160 עֲרָבָה (arabah)

Arabah means “desert” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6160
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 56
Books 13

Strong's H6160 Quick Answer

Strong's H6160 עֲרָבָה (`arabah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `arabah (ar-aw-baw') n-f. 1. a desert 2. (especially, with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea It has 56 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include jordan, desert, sea, valley, and valleys. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
`arabah (ar-aw-baw') n-f. 1. a desert 2. (especially, with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
Usage
56 linked usages
Books
13 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
jordan, desert, sea, valley, and valleys

Meaning and Definition

`arabah (ar-aw-baw') n-f. 1. a desert 2. (especially, with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea [from H6150 (in the sense of sterility)] KJV: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also H1026. Root(s): H6150 See also: H1026

Original Word
עֲרָבָה
Transliteration
`arabah
Derivation
Root: ערב First root strongs: 6150
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6160. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H6160 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `arabah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

Jordan Numbers 22:1 16× desert Job 24:5 sea Deuteronomy 1:7 valley Joshua 11:2 Arabah Joshua 18:18 deserts Jeremiah 2:6 valleys Joshua 12:8

How Strong's H6160 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 56 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6160 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6160 in the Old Testament

56 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Numbers 22:1 KJV

And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.

Numbers 26:3 KJV

And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

Numbers 26:63 KJV

These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

Usage Excerpts

First 56 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6160.

Numbers 22:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
Numbers 26:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Numbers 26:63 Old Testament, KJV
These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers 31:12 Old Testament, KJV
And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers 33:48 Old Testament, KJV
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers 33:49 Old Testament, KJV
And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
Numbers 33:50 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Numbers 35:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Numbers 36:13 Old Testament, KJV
These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Deuteronomy 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
Deuteronomy 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 3:17 Old Testament, KJV
The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.
Deuteronomy 4:49 Old Testament, KJV
And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
Deuteronomy 11:30 Old Testament, KJV
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
Deuteronomy 34:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
Deuteronomy 34:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Joshua 3:16 Old Testament, KJV
That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
Joshua 4:13 Old Testament, KJV
About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Joshua 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Joshua 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
Joshua 11:2 Old Testament, KJV
And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
Joshua 11:16 Old Testament, KJV
So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;
Joshua 12:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
Joshua 12:3 Old Testament, KJV
And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:
Joshua 12:8 Old Testament, KJV
In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
Joshua 13:32 Old Testament, KJV
These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
Joshua 18:18 Old Testament, KJV
And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
1 Samuel 23:24 Old Testament, KJV
And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
2 Samuel 2:29 Old Testament, KJV
And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 4:7 Old Testament, KJV
For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
2 Samuel 17:16 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
2 Kings 14:25 Old Testament, KJV
He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
2 Kings 25:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
2 Kings 25:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
Job 24:5 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Job 39:6 Old Testament, KJV
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Psalms 68:4 Old Testament, KJV
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
Isaiah 33:9 Old Testament, KJV
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Isaiah 35:1 Old Testament, KJV
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isaiah 35:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 40:3 Old Testament, KJV
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 41:19 Old Testament, KJV
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
Isaiah 51:3 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Jeremiah 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Jeremiah 17:6 Old Testament, KJV
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jeremiah 39:4 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
Jeremiah 39:5 Old Testament, KJV
But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
Jeremiah 50:12 Old Testament, KJV
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jeremiah 51:43 Old Testament, KJV
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Jeremiah 52:7 Old Testament, KJV
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
Jeremiah 52:8 Old Testament, KJV
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Ezekiel 47:8 Old Testament, KJV
Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
Amos 6:14 Old Testament, KJV
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
Zechariah 14:10 Old Testament, KJV
All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6160, grouped by book.

Numbers 9 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 8 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 11 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 9 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6160 FAQ

What does arabah (עֲרָבָה) mean?

Arabah (Strong's H6160) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "desert". `arabah (ar-aw-baw') n-f. 1. a desert 2. (especially, with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea

How many times is arabah (עֲרָבָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 56 linked usages for Strong's H6160 across 13 books.

Where can I study arabah (עֲרָבָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6160 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate arabah (עֲרָבָה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as jordan, desert, sea, valley, valleys, and arabah. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.