Ambush
מַאֲרָבStrong’s H3993maarav (ma-a-rav)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maarav is the Hebrew word usually translated “ambush” and “ambush of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.”
Meaning
- Ambush, (hunter's) blindambush, lurking place · liers-in-wait
How it's translated
- the ambush 3
- and the ambush 1
- in an ambush of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 9:35And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.
- 2 Chronicles 13:13But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
- Psalms 10:8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Hebrew dictionary
מַאֲרָב maarav · ambush
1) ambush, (hunter's) blind 1a) ambush, lurking place 1b) liers-in-wait
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.