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Strong's #709 - אַרְגֹּב
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Argob = “heap of clods”
1) a district or area in Bashan (noun proper locative)
2) one of king Pekah’s officers (noun proper masculine)
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1. location ( heap, or region of clods; 'glede' GASm G551); — always ׳חֶבֶל א Deuteronomy 3:4,14; 1 Kings 4:13, ׳הָא׳ח Deuteronomy 3:13; = measured region of Argob; some well-defined district of Bashan (apparently identification with חַוֺת יָאִיר Deuteronomy 3:14 [where ׳י׳ח in Bashan, so Joshua 13:30], but this a harmonistic correction; ׳י׳ח in fact in Gilead [ Numbers 32:41; Judges 10:4, and distinguished from אַרְגֹּב 1 Kings 4:13 compare Deuteronomy 3:13); exact location dubious, GASm l.c. and especially Dr Deuteronomy 3:4; Buhl Geogr.18 thinks of ‚uwet, south of Upper Yarmuk, a border district between Bashan and Gilead. — Αρσοβ; 1 Kings 4:13 Ερεβαταμ, ᵐ5 L Πασαβαν, A Ερσαβ.
2. masculine 2 Kings 15:25, Αρσοβ dubious; see Klo Kit Benz Bur.
אַרְגֹּב (for. רְגֹב “a hear of stones,” from the root רָגַב=רָגַם) [Argob], pr.n. of a region situated beyond Jordan, in which were sixty cities, anciently subject to Og, king of Bashan, Deuteronomy 3:4, 13 1 Kings 4:13. There is a mountain there now called Arkub Massalubie.
[(2) pr.n. of a man, 2 Kings 15:25.]
