Akrabbim
עַקְרַבִּיםStrong’s H4610maaleh aqrabbim (ma-a-leh aq-rab-bim)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maaleh aqrabbim is the Hebrew word usually translated “scorpions” and “ascent of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:”
Meaning
- § Maaleh-acrabbim = "ascent of scorpions"
How it's translated
- scorpions 3
- to ascent of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 15:3And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
- Judges 1:36And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
Hebrew dictionary
עַקְרַבִּים maaleh aqrabbim · Akrabbim
§ Maaleh-acrabbim = "ascent of scorpions" a pass on the southern border of Palestine scorpion-pass; ascent of Akrabbim
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scorpion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCOR'PION, noun
[Latin scorpio; Gr. probably altered from the Oriental.]
- In zoology, an insect of the genus Scorpio, or rather the genus itself, containing several species, natives of southern or warm climates.
- In Scripture, a painful scourge; a kind of whip armed with points like a scorpion's tail. 1 Kings 12:11
- In astronomy, the eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters, Oct. 23.
- A sea fish. [Latin scorpius.]
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.