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# מַעֲרָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4627

**articles of exchange** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

articles of exchange [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4627/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲרָב³: n.m. coll. articles of exchange, merchandise [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4627/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. usually coll. articles of exchange, merchandise (only of Tyre, Ez 27);—sf. מַעֲרָבֵךְ v 13, 17, 19, 25, 27 a.34; as acc. cogn. c. עָרַב v 9, 27; pl. sf. מַעֲרָבַיִךְ v 33 perhaps thy (diverse) wares (DHMVOJ viii (1894), 4 proposes, ingeniously, meaning imports, deriveing from. V. ערב enter, but improb.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: merchandise (7); merchandise(s) (1); your merchandise (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 27:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.25/#tree)

אֳנִיּ֣וֹת תַּרְשִׁ֔ישׁ שָׁרוֹתַ֖יִךְ מַעֲרָבֵ֑ךְ וַתִּמָּלְאִ֧י וַֽתִּכְבְּדִ֛י מְאֹ֖ד בְּלֵ֥ב־יַמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.ships of.Tarshish \[were\].your travelers merchandise your and you.were.filled and you.were.honored exceedingly in.\[the\] heart of.\[the\].seas

*JPS 1917:* The ships of Tarshish brought thee tribute for thy merchandise; so wast thou replenished, and made very heavy in the heart of the seas.

[Ezekiel 27:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.13/#tree)

יָוָ֤ן תֻּבַל֙ וָמֶ֔שֶׁךְ הֵ֖מָּה רֹֽכְלָ֑יִךְ בְּנֶ֤פֶשׁ אָדָם֙ וּכְלֵ֣י נְחֹ֔שֶׁת נָתְנ֖וּ מַעֲרָבֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* Javan Tubal and Meshech they \[were\].your traders for.\[the\] life of.human\[s\] and vessels of.bronze they.exchanged merchandise your

*JPS 1917:* Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4627.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4627/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).