# עֲרָבָה (aravah)

Israeli respelling: a-ra-vah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6160. 57 Old Testament occurrences.

a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea

King James renderings: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also H1026 (בֵּית הָעֲרָבָה).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/aravah-h6160

## Occurrences

- [Numbers 22:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/22/1) — And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
- [Numbers 26:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/3) — And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
- [Numbers 26:63](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/63) — These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near…
- [Numbers 31:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/12) — And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children o…
- [Numbers 33:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/48) — And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
- [Numbers 33:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/49) — And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
- [Numbers 33:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/50) — And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
- [Numbers 35:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/1) — And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
- [Numbers 36:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/36/13) — These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Mo…
- [Deuteronomy 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/1) — These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between…
- [Deuteronomy 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/7) — Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, a…
- [Deuteronomy 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/8) — And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziong…
- [Deuteronomy 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/17) — The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah e…
- [Deuteronomy 4:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/49) — And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
- [Deuteronomy 11:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/30) — Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign ove…
- [Deuteronomy 34:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/34/1) — And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewe…
- [Deuteronomy 34:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/34/8) — And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
- [Joshua 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/3/16) — That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those th…
- [Joshua 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/4/13) — About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
- [Joshua 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/10) — And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
- [Joshua 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/14) — And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to bat…
- [Joshua 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/11/2) — And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of D…
- [Joshua 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/11/16) — So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the moun…
- [Joshua 12:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/1) — Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the risin…
- [Joshua 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/3) — And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshi…
- [Joshua 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/8) — In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites,…
- [Joshua 13:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/32) — These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
- [Joshua 18:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/18/18) — And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
- [1 Samuel 23:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/24) — And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
- [2 Samuel 2:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/2/29) — And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahan…
- [2 Samuel 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/4/7) — For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his he…
- [2 Samuel 15:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/15/28) — See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
- [2 Samuel 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/16) — Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the…
- [2 Kings 14:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/14/25) — He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, whi…
- [2 Kings 25:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/4) — And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (…
- [2 Kings 25:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/5) — And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
- [Job 24:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/5) — Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for…
- [Job 39:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/6) — Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
- [Psalms 68:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/4) — Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
- [Isaiah 33:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/9) — The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fr…
- [Isaiah 35:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/35/1) — The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
- [Isaiah 35:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/35/6) — Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the…
- [Isaiah 40:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/3) — The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
- [Isaiah 41:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/19) — I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and th…
- [Isaiah 51:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/3) — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the g…
- [Jeremiah 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/6) — Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of des…
- [Jeremiah 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/6) — Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: e…
- [Jeremiah 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/6) — For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, i…
- [Jeremiah 39:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/39/4) — And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city…
- [Jeremiah 39:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/39/5) — But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him u…
- [Jeremiah 50:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/12) — Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dr…
- [Jeremiah 51:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/43) — Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
- [Jeremiah 52:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/7) — Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two wa…
- [Jeremiah 52:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/52/8) — But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from h…
- [Ezekiel 47:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/8) — Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought…
- [Amos 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/14) — But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the…
- [Zechariah 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/14/10) — All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from…