ʼărubbâh — H699

Definition

feminine noun

a lattice; (by implication) a window, dovecot (because of the pigeon-holes), chimney (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water)

1. lattice, window, sluice
2. (CLBL) chimney (lattice opening where smoke escapes)

Usually translated as

chimney, window

Origin

feminine participle passive of H693 (as if for lurking)

• ʼârab (H693)

Greek equivalents

• thyrís (G2376)
• opḗ (G3692)

Occurrences

ʼărubbâh occurs 9 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), 2 Kings (2), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (2), Hosea (1), Malachi (1)

• Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows (וַאֲרֻבֹּ֥ת) of heaven were opened.
• Genesis 8:2 — The fountains also of the deep and the windows (וַֽאֲרֻבֹּ֖ת) of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
• 2 Kings 7:2 — Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows (אֲרֻבּוֹת֙) in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
• 2 Kings 7:19 — And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows (אֲרֻבּוֹת֙) in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
• Ecclesiastes 12:3 — In 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 that look out of the windows (בָּאֲרֻבּֽוֹת) be darkened,
• Isaiah 24:18 — And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows (אֲרֻבּ֤וֹת) from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
• Isaiah 60:8 — Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows (אֲרֻבֹּתֵיהֶֽם)?
• Hosea 13:3 — Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney (מֵאֲרֻבָּֽה).
• Malachi 3:10 — Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows (אֲרֻבּ֣וֹת) of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.