Four
אַרְבַּעStrong’s H0703arba (ar-ba)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arba is the Aramaic word usually translated “four”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”
Meaning
- Four
How it's translated
- four 6
- and four 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 7:2In contextDaniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
- Daniel 7:3In contextAnd four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
- Daniel 7:6In contextAfter this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
- Daniel 7:17In contextThese great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
- Ezra 6:17And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Aramaic dictionary
אַרְבַּע arba · four
four Aramaic of ar.ba (אַרְבַּע "four" H0702)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “four” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOUR, adjective
[Latin petoritum, petorritum, a carriage with four wheels, petor-rota.]
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.