Ambush
אֹ֫רֶבStrong’s H0696orev (o-rev)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Orev is the Hebrew word usually translated “ambush his” and “ambush their”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.”
Meaning
- Ambuscade, hiding place
- Treachery, deceit (fig.)
How it's translated
- ambush his 1
- in ambush their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
- Hosea 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֹ֫רֶב orev · ambush
1) ambuscade, hiding place 2) treachery, deceit (fig.)
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.