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# עַרְבִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6163

**Arabian** — used 7 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

Arabian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6163/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַרְבִי: adj.gent. Arabian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6163/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Arabian (in strictly ethnographic sense, Nöl.c.);—הָע׳ as subst. Ne 2:19 Geshem the Arabian, so 6:1; pl. הָעַרְבִים Ne 4:1 2 Ch 21:16; 22:1; also (written as NH) הערביים 26:7 (Qr הָעַרְבִים), and even הָעַרְבִיאִים 17:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Arabs (5); Arab (2).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 21:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.21.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.21.16/#tree)

וַיָּ֨עַר יְהוָ֜ה עַל־יְהוֹרָ֗ם אֵ֣ת ר֤וּחַ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּים֙ וְהָ֣עַרְבִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־יַ֥ד כּוּשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and he.stirred.up Yahweh on Jehoram (et) the.spirit of the.Philistines and the Arabs who \[were\].on the.hand \[the\].Cushites

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians;

[2 Chronicles 26:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.26.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.26.7/#tree)

וַיַּעְזְרֵ֨הוּ הָֽאֱלֹהִ֜ים עַל־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֧ים וְעַל־הָֽעַרְבִ֛ים הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים בְּגוּר־בָּ֖עַלגוּר־בָּ֖עַל וְהַמְּעוּנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he helped.him (the) God on \[the\].Philistines and on the Arabs \[who were\].dwelling in Gur Baal and the Meunites

*JPS 1917:* And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6163/): 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).