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# מַעֲרָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4628

**west** — used 14 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

west [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4628/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲרָב⁴: west [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4628/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] west (late) (place of sunset);—מִמַּעֲרָבָה (= -בָהּ, cf. De Ges§ 91 e) Is 45:6 from its setting-place (opp. מִמִּזְרַח־שֶׁמֶשׁ); מַעֲרָב opp. מִזְרָח also 43:5; 59:19 ψ 103:12; 107:3, so לַמּ׳ westward 1 Ch 7:28; 12:16 (van d. H. v 15), 26:16, 18; מ׳ opp. מוֹצָא ψ 75:7; מִן־הַמִּעֲרָב (alone) Dn 8:5; c. ה loc. מַעֲרָ֫בָה 1 Ch 26:30 westward, sq. לְ = to the west of 2 Ch 32:30; 33:14, מִמּ׳ לַגִּבְעָה Ju 20:33 according to 𝔊 (not B) 𝔙 Be GFM al. (v. \[מַעֲרֶה\]).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: west (8); westward (3); setting place (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 103:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.12/#tree)

כִּרְחֹ֣ק מִ֭זְרָח מִֽמַּֽעֲרָ֑ב הִֽרְחִ֥יק מִ֝מֶּ֗נּוּ אֶת־פְּשָׁעֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* as is.far.away east from west he.has.removed.far.away from us (et) transgressions our

*JPS 1917:* As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.

[Psalms 75:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.75.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.75.7/#tree)

כִּ֤י לֹ֣א מִ֭מּוֹצָא וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב וְ֝לֹ֗א מִמִּדְבַּ֥ר הָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not \[is\].from.\[the\] going.out and from.\[the\] setting.place and not \[is\].from.\[the\] wilderness exaltation

*JPS 1917:* For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the wilderness, cometh lifting up.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4628/): 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).