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# עֵרֶב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6154

**woof** — used 9 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

woof [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6154/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵ֫רֶב²: woof [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6154/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] woof (as mixed, interwoven, with warp);—Lv 13:48 + 8 times 13 (all opp. שְׁתִי warp), cf. GFMPAOS 1889, clxxviii.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: woof (9).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 13:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.48/#tree)

א֤וֹ בִֽשְׁתִי֙ א֣וֹ בְעֵ֔רֶב לַפִּשְׁתִּ֖ים וְלַצָּ֑מֶר א֣וֹ בְע֔וֹר א֖וֹ בְּכָל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* or in warp or in woof of the linen(s) and of the wool or in a.hide or in every work of.hide

*JPS 1917:* or in the warp, or in the woof, whether they be of linen, or of wool; or in a skin, or in any thing made of skin.

[Leviticus 13:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.53/#tree)

וְאִם֮ יִרְאֶ֣ה הַכֹּהֵן֒ וְהִנֵּה֙ לֹא־פָשָׂ֣ה הַנֶּ֔גַע בַּבֶּ֕גֶד א֥וֹ בַשְּׁתִ֖י א֣וֹ בָעֵ֑רֶב א֖וֹ בְּכָל־כְּלִי־עֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and if he.will.see the priest and there! not it.has.spread the plague in the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in every article of.hide

*JPS 1917:* And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6154.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6154/): 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).