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# עֲרָבִי

Biblical Hebrew

**steppe-dweller** — used 2 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

steppe-dweller [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲרָבִי: n.gent. steppe-dweller [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.gent. of foregoing, steppe-dweller;—Is 13:20; כַּעֲרֶבִי בַּמִּדְבָּר֑ Je 3:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an Arab (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 13:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.20/#tree)

לֹֽא־תֵשֵׁ֣ב לָנֶ֔צַח וְלֹ֥א תִשְׁכֹּ֖ן עַד־דּ֣וֹר וָד֑וֹר וְלֹֽא־יַהֵ֥ל שָׁם֙ עֲרָבִ֔י וְרֹעִ֖ים לֹא־יַרְבִּ֥צוּ שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.remain to perpetuity and not it.will.settle until a.generation and a.generation and not he.will.pitch.tent there an.Arab and shepherds not they.will.make.lie.down there

*JPS 1917:* It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

[Jeremiah 3:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.2/#tree)

שְׂאִֽי־עֵינַ֨יִךְ עַל־שְׁפָיִ֜ם וּרְאִ֗י אֵיפֹה֙ לֹ֣א שֻׁכַּ֔בְתְּ עַל־דְּרָכִים֙ יָשַׁ֣בְתְּ לָהֶ֔ם כַּעֲרָבִ֖י בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַתַּחֲנִ֣יפִי אֶ֔רֶץ בִּזְנוּתַ֖יִךְ וּבְרָעָתֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* lift.up eyes your on bare.heights and see where? not have.you.been.lain.with at roads you.sat for them like an.Arab in the wilderness and you.have.polluted \[the\].land by prostitution(s) your and by wickedness your

*JPS 1917:* Lift up thine eyes unto the high hills, and see: Where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotries and with thy wickedness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9/): 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).