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Arba

Mentioned 1443–1442 BC traditional (Jones)

Mentioned in 3 verses, first in Joshua 14:15.

Compiled from the tagged verses.

Child
Anak
Tagged in
3 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Arba: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Arba, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Hebron3
  2. location unknown: Judah1
  3. location not graded: Kiriath-arba1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1468–1417 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Arba’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Arba in 3 tagged verses in one book.

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  1. Joshua3

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBArba 3
KJVArba 3
ASVArba 3

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 3 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Joshua3 verses
  1. 14:15

    (Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.

  2. 15:13

    According to the LORD’s command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)

  3. 21:11

    They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)