Ambush
אֶ֫רֶבStrong’s H0695erev (e-rev)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Erev is the Hebrew word usually translated “lair” and “lying-in-wait”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.”
Meaning
- A lying-in-wait
- Covert, lair, den
How it's translated
- a lair 1
- lying-in-wait 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֶ֫רֶב erev · ambush
1) a lying-in-wait 2) covert, lair, den
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ambush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AM'BUSH, noun
- A private or concealed station, where troops lie in wait to attack their enemy by surprise.
- The state of lying concealed, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; a lying in wait.
- The troops posted in a concealed place for attacking by surprise.“Lay thee an ambush for the city” Joshua 8:2
All definitions and other forms of “ambush”
AM'BUSH, verb transitive
To lie in wait for; to surprise, by assailing unexpectedly from a concealed place.
AM'BUSH, verb intransitive
To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.