אֲרֻבָּה
a.rub.bah
window
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word אֲרֻבָּה (arubbah) is defined as a "window." It is classified within the semantic domain of "Water & Weather," suggesting a connection to the physical elements of the natural world. This word appears 9 times in the Bible, indicating its importance in the text. Given its definition, it is likely that the word אֲרֻבָּה refers to a structure that allows for the passage of light, air, or possibly even water. Its association with the water and weather domain may imply a connection to the external environment, such as a window that lets in rain or sunlight. The frequency of its appearance in the Bible suggests that windows played a significant role in ancient Israelite architecture or daily life.
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Occurrences in Scripture
9 total occurrences across the text
It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Ecclesiastes 12:3in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,
Isaiah 60:8“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
Malachi 3:10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
Genesis 8:2The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
2 Kings 7:19and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
2 Kings 7:2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”