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# עָרַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6150

**become evening** — used 3 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

become evening [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6150/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרַב³: vb. denom. become evening; grow dark [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6150/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. become evening; grow dark (?);— Inf. cstr. רָפָה הַיּוֹם לַעֲרוֹב Ju 19:9, but read prob. נָטָה הַיּוֹם לָעֶרֶב 𝔊L GFM; Pf. 3 fs. fig. עָֽרְבָה Is 24:11 all joy has grown dark, but read עָֽבְרָה has passed away Lo Gr PerlesAnal. 91 CheHpt. al. Inf. abs. הַשְׁכֵּם וְהַעֲרֵב 1 S 17:16 doing it at morning and at evening.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: become evening (1); doing in the evening (1); it has become evening (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 17:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.16/#tree)

וַיִּגַּ֥שׁ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖י הַשְׁכֵּ֣ם וְהַעֲרֵ֑ב וַיִּתְיַצֵּ֖ב אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יֽוֹם׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.drew.near the Philistine rising.early and doing.in.the.evening and he.took.his.stand forty day\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

[Isaiah 24:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.11/#tree)

צְוָחָ֥ה עַל־הַיַּ֖יִן בַּֽחוּצ֑וֹת עָֽרְבָה֙ כָּל־שִׂמְחָ֔ה גָּלָ֖ה מְשׂ֥וֹשׂ הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* an.outcry on (the) wine \[will be\] in.the.streets it.has.become.evening all gladness it.has.departed the.joy of the.earth

*JPS 1917:* There is a crying in the streets amidst the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6150.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6150/): 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).