Strong's #693: 'arab (pronounced aw-rab')

a primitive root; to lurk:--(lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ârab

1) to lie in wait, ambush, lurk

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to lie in wait

1a2) ambush (participle as subst)

1b) (Piel) ambushers, liers-in-wait (plural participle)

1c) (Hiphil) to lay an ambush

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 42 times:

 

Deuteronomy 19:11: "any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite"
Joshua 8:2: "thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind"
Joshua 8:4: "them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city:"
Joshua 8:7: "Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD"
Joshua 8:12: "thousand men, them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side"
Joshua 8:14: "knew not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city."
Joshua 8:19: " And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, as soon as he had stretched out his hand:"
Joshua 8:21: "Israel saw the ambush had taken the city, and that"
Judges 9:25: "And the men of Shechem set liers in wait the top of the mountains, and they robbed"
Judges 9:32: "that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:"
Judges 9:34: "were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies."
Judges 9:43: "and divided companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people"
Judges 16:2: "is come And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city,"
Judges 16:9: " Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson."
Judges 16:12: "him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he broke them from off"
Judges 20:29: "And Israel set liers in wait round about"
Judges 20:33: "and put themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places,"
Judges 20:36: "because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah."
Judges 20:37: " And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote"
Judges 20:37: "and rushed upon and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all"
Judges 20:38: "an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up"
Judges 21:20: "of Benjamin, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;"
1 Samuel 15:5: "to a city and laid wait in the valley."
1 Samuel 22:8: "me, or showeth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait,"
1 Samuel 22:13: "of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"
2 Chronicles 20:22: "and to praise, set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab,"
Ezra 8:31: "was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by"
Job 31:9: "have been deceived by or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;"
Psalms 10:9: " He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: to catch the poor: he doth catch"
Psalms 10:9: "secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor,"
Psalms 59:3: "For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: are gathered against me; not"
Proverbs 1:11: "they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:"
Proverbs 1:18: "And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily"
Proverbs 7:12: "is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)"
Proverbs 12:6: "The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: of the upright shall deliver"
Proverbs 23:28: "She also lieth in wait as for a prey, the transgressors among men."
Proverbs 24:15: "Lay not wait, Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; not his resting place:"
Jeremiah 51:12: "set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised"
Lamentations 3:10: "He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion"
Lamentations 4:19: "they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness."
Hosea 7:6: "they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night;"
Micah 7:2: "upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man"