# מַאֲרָב (maarav)

Israeli respelling: ma-a-rav. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3993. 4 Old Testament occurrences.

an ambuscade

King James renderings: lie in ambush, ambushment, lurking place, lying in wait.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/maarav-h3993

## Occurrences

- [Joshua 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/9) — Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodge…
- [Judges 9:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/35) — And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with…
- [2 Chronicles 13:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/13/13) — But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
- [Psalms 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/8) — He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the po…