Window
אֲרֻבָּהStrong’s H0699arubbah (a-rub-bah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arubbah is the Hebrew word usually translated “windows”, “floodgates of” and “openings their”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”
Meaning
- Lattice, window, sluice
- (CLBL) chimney (lattice opening where smoke escapes)
How it's translated
- windows 3
- and floodgates of 2
- in the windows 1
- openings their 1
- from a window 1
- windows of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Isaiah 2
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Hosea 1
- Malachi 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 8:2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- 2 Kings 7:2Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
- 2 Kings 7:19And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
- Ecclesiastes 12:3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
- Isaiah 24:18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
- Isaiah 60:8Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Hebrew dictionary
אֲרֻבָּה arubbah · window
1) lattice, window, sluice 2) (CLBL) chimney (lattice opening where smoke escapes)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “window” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WINDOW, noun
[ G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]
- An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary.
- An aperture or opening.“A window shalt thou make to the ark” Genesis 6:16
- The frame or other thing that covers the aperture.
- An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts.“The windows of heaven were opened” Genesis 7:11
All definitions and other forms of “window”
- Lattice or casement; or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges 5:28
- Lines crossing each other.
WINDOW, verb transitive
- To furnish with windows.
- To place at a window [Unusual.]
- To break into openings. [Unusual.]
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.