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# עֹרֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6159

**Oreb** — 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

Oreb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6159/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹרֵב: n.m. raven [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6159/#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 differs, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Oreb (4); of Oreb (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 83:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.12/#tree)

שִׁיתֵ֣מוֹ נְ֭דִיבֵמוֹ כְּעֹרֵ֣ב וְכִזְאֵ֑ב וּֽכְזֶ֥בַח וּ֝כְצַלְמֻנָּ֗ע כָּל־נְסִיכֵֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* make them their.noble \[people\] like Oreb and like Zeeb and like Zebah and like Zalmunna all princes their

*JPS 1917:* Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes;

[Isaiah 10:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.26/#tree)

וְעוֹרֵ֨ר עָלָ֜יו יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאוֹת֙ שׁ֔וֹט כְּמַכַּ֥ת מִדְיָ֖ן בְּצ֣וּר עוֹרֵ֑ב וּמַטֵּ֙הוּ֙ עַל־הַיָּ֔ם וּנְשָׂא֖וֹ בְּדֶ֥רֶךְ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.wield on it Yahweh of.hosts a.whip like the.defeat of.Midian at the.rock of.Oreb and staff his \[will.be\].over the sea and he will.raise.it in the.manner of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD of hosts shall stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the Rock of Oreb; and as His rod was over the sea, so shall He lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6159.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6159/): 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).