Strong's #3993: ma'arab (pronounced mah-ar-awb')

from 693; an ambuscade:--lie in ambush, ambushment, lurking place, lying in wait.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ma'ărâb

1) ambush, (hunter' s) blind

1a) ambush, lurking place

1b) liers-in-wait

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H693

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Joshua 8:9: "therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai,"
Judges 9:35: "that were with him, from lying in wait."
2 Chronicles 13:13: "But Jeroboam caused an ambushment behind them: so they were"
2 Chronicles 13:13: "behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind"
Psalms 10:8: "He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places the innocent: his eyes are privily set"