אַרְגֹּב

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hebrewOld TestamentName of a place5 occurrences3 books5 verses
This name belongs to 2 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Argob: Officer of King Pekahiah of Israel
  • Argob: A region in Bashan, known for its fortified cities

Definition

from the same as H7263; stony; Argob, a district of Palestine
Traditional renderings: Argob.

Glossary entries

Argob (Place) Argob (Person)

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

5 total
  1. Deuteronomy 3:4אַרְגֹּ֔ב · of Argob
    At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
  2. Deuteronomy 3:13הָֽאַרְגֹּב֙ · of Argob
    To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.)
  3. Deuteronomy 3:14אַרְגֹּ֔ב · of Argob
    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.
  4. 1 Kings 4:13אַרְגֹּב֙ · of Argob
    Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
  5. 2 Kings 15:25אַרְגֹּ֣ב · Argob
    Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him along with Argob, Arieh, and fifty men of Gilead. And at the citadel of the king’s palace in Samaria, Pekah struck down and killed Pekahiah and reigned in his place.