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# עֲרָבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6155

**poplar** — used 5 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

poplar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6155/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲרָבָה²: poplar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6155/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] poplar (populus Euphratica = Arabic غَرَبٌ We in De Gn (4), 568 KerstenZPV ii. 209 De Is (4) 44, 4 Löw p. 300 Anm.; NH עֲרָבָה; √ obscure);—pl. abs. עֲרָבִים עַל־יִבְלֵי־מָ֑יִם Is 44:4, cf. ψ 137:2; cstr. עַרְבֵי־נָ֑חַל Lv 23:40 (H); Jb 40:22; נַחַל־הָעֲרָבִים Is 15:7 (a wady in Moab; identification dub., v. conjectures in BuhlGeogr. 124).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: poplars (3); \[the\] poplars (1); the poplars (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 137:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.2/#tree)

עַֽל־עֲרָבִ֥ים בְּתוֹכָ֑הּ תָּ֝לִ֗ינוּ כִּנֹּרוֹתֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* on poplars in the.midst of.it we.hung.up harps our

*JPS 1917:* Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.

[Job 40:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.22/#tree)

יְסֻכֻּ֣הוּ צֶאֱלִ֣ים צִֽלֲל֑וֹ יְ֝סֻבּ֗וּהוּ עַרְבֵי־נָֽחַל׃

*Word for word:* they cover.it thorny.lotus.plants shade its they surround.it \[the\].poplars of.\[the\].wadi

*JPS 1917:* The lotus-trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6155/): 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).