This name belongs to 4 different places in the Bible:
- Arabah: A desert region in the Jordan Valley and southward
- Beth-arabah: Town and wilderness area in Judah, also associated with Benjamin
- Brook of the Arabah: Eastern boundary of Jeroboam II's kingdom
- Salt Sea: Another name for the Dead Sea
Definition
from H6150 (in the sense of sterility); a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
Traditional renderings: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also H1026.
Traditional renderings: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also H1026.
Glossary entries
Arabah Dead Sea Beth-Arabah Arbathite Salt Sea Brook of the Arabah
Where it occurs
Occurrences
60 total
- Jeremiah 17:6בָּֽעֲרָבָ֔ה · in the desertHe will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
- Jeremiah 39:4הָעֲרָבָֽה׃ · to the ArabahWhen Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.
- Jeremiah 39:5בְּעַֽרְב֣וֹת · in the plainsBut the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.
- Jeremiah 50:12וַעֲרָבָֽה׃ · and a desert…your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- Jeremiah 51:43וַעֲרָבָ֑ה · and aridHer cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
- Jeremiah 52:7הָעֲרָבָֽה׃ · the ArabahThen the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
- Jeremiah 52:8בְּעַֽרְבֹ֣ת · in the plains…but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.
- Ezekiel 47:8הָֽעֲרָבָ֑ה · the ArabahAnd he said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah. When it empties into the Dead Sea, the water there becomes fresh.
- Amos 6:14הָעֲרָבָֽה׃ס · of the ArabahFor behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
- Zechariah 14:10כָּעֲרָבָה֙ · into a plainAll the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain, but Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain in her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.