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# עֹרֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6158

**raven** — used 10 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

raven [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6158/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹרֵב: n.m. raven [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6158/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 11:15 raven;—ע׳ Is 34:11; הָע׳ Gn 8:7 Lv 11:15; Dt 14:14; Jb 38:41; כָּעוֹרֵב Ct 5:11 black as the raven; בְּנֵי עֹרֵב ψ 147:9, young ravens; pl. abs. הָעֹרְבִים 1 K 17:4, 6; cstr. עֹרְבֵי־נַחַל Pr 30:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: raven (6); ravens (2); \[the\] ravens (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 11:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.15/#tree)

אֵ֥ת כָּל־עֹרֵ֖ב לְמִינֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (et) every raven to kind its

*JPS 1917:* every raven after its kinds;

[Deuteronomy 14:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.14/#tree)

וְאֵ֥ת כָּל־עֹרֵ֖ב לְמִינֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) every raven to kind its

*JPS 1917:* and every raven after its kinds;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6158.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6158/): 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).