אַרְבֶּה

Exodus 10:4 אַרְבֶּ֖ה locust[s]

But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

Exodus 10:12 בָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה for the locust[s]

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”

Exodus 10:13 הָאַרְבֶּֽה׃ the locust[s]

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

Exodus 10:14 הָֽאַרְבֶּ֗ה אַרְבֶּה֙ the locust[s], locust[s]

The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.

Exodus 10:19 הָ֣אַרְבֶּ֔ה אַרְבֶּ֣ה the locust[s], a locust

And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.

Leviticus 11:22 הָֽאַרְבֶּ֣ה the locust

Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.

Deuteronomy 28:38 הָאַרְבֶּֽה׃ the locust[s]

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

Here: The usual Hebrew word for the migratory locust. It is singular but means a whole swarm. It is the same word used for the eighth plague on Egypt (Exodus 10).

Judges 6:5 אַרְבֶּה֙ locust[s]

For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.

Here: The swarming locust, the same word used for the Egyptian plague in Exodus 10. It conveys both countless numbers and crops eaten to nothing.

Judges 7:12 כָּאַרְבֶּ֖ה like <the> locust[s]

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Here: The swarming locust, which can strip a region bare. The singular 'the locust' stands for the whole swarm. The image is of numbers and of crops being eaten up, which is exactly what these raiders did (6:3–5).

1 Kings 8:37 אַרְבֶּ֤ה locust[s]

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

Here: The ordinary word for the swarming locust, the creature of the eighth plague on Egypt. A swarm could strip every green thing from a district within hours.

2 Chronicles 6:28 אַרְבֶּ֤ה locust[s]

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

Here: The usual word for the swarming migratory locust, the insect of the Egyptian plague (Exodus 10). A swarm could strip a region's crops in hours.

Job 39:20 כָּאַרְבֶּ֑ה like <the> locust

Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?

Psalm 78:46 לָאַרְבֶּֽה׃ to the locust

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Psalm 105:34 אַרְבֶּ֑ה locust[s]

He spoke, and the locusts came—young locusts without number.

Psalm 109:23 כָּֽאַרְבֶּֽה׃ like <the> locust

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Proverbs 30:27 לָאַרְבֶּ֑ה [belongs] to the locust

the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;

Here: "To/for the locust." Hebrew uses this "to" to mark possession, so the sense is "the locust has no king." The singular with "the" means the species as a whole. The word names the migratory desert locust in its swarming phase, the creature of the Exodus plague and of Joel's locust army.

Jeremiah 46:23 מֵֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה more than locust[s]

They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

Here: 'More than the locust': the swarming desert locust, the standard picture of an army that cannot be counted and strips everything bare. Aimed at Egypt, it also recalls the locust plague of Exodus 10.

Joel 1:4 הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה הָאַרְבֶּ֖ה the locust[s]

What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

Here: The standard Hebrew word for locust, probably from a root meaning 'to be many'. It is the word for the locusts of the Egyptian plague (Exodus 10). Here it is the second wave.

Joel 2:25 הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה the locust[s]

I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.

Here: The most common Hebrew word for locust, the one used for the Egypt plague (Exod 10). It is often linked to the root for 'to be many,' which fits a swarm. Here it heads the list.

Nahum 3:15 כָּאַרְבֶּֽה׃ like the locust

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!

Nahum 3:17 כָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה [are] like the locust

Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.

Here: The ordinary Hebrew word for the migratory locust that travels in vast swarms (the word used in the Exodus plague). Here it pictures enormous numbers, but numbers that are about to vanish.