ar.ba marks a quantity of four, including groups, measurements, directions, and parts of larger numbers.

The supplied verses show ar.ba as a cardinal quantity specifying four items or units: people, sons, directions, architectural features, measurements, and the four-hundred component within larger totals. Its forms occur in both masculine and feminine singular tags, with construct forms where the quantity is joined to what is counted.

1. Cardinal quantity in counts and measurements · dominant

   The term specifies a count of four across varied clauses: in 1 Chronicles 21:20 the APB renders four sons hiding with Ornan; in 1 Chronicles 9:24 it renders the gatekeepers at the four winds; and in 1 Kings 7:27 it renders each bronze stand as four cubits long and four cubits wide. It also appears within larger numerical expressions, as in 1 Kings 18:19, where the APB renders groups of four hundred prophets, and 1 Chronicles 27:2, where it renders a division of twenty-four thousand.

   1 Chronicles 21:201 Chronicles 9:241 Kings 7:271 Kings 18:191 Chronicles 27:21 Chronicles 23:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly presents the numerical quantity with “four,” including “four sons,” “four winds,” and “four cubits,” and also within expressions such as “four hundred” and “twenty-four thousand.” These renderings confirm the clauses' numerical content rather than assigning every English numerical word directly to the lemma.