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# עֲרָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6152

**Arabia** — used 6 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

Arabia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6152/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲרָב: n.pr.gent.coll. steppe-dwellers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6152/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent.coll. steppe-dwellers of N. Arabia (WetzstZvölkerpsych. vii. 463 f.; extended later (so Herod. ii.11 etc.) to whole peninsula, cf. Arabic العَرَبُ the Arabs, Bedúwy the people, DoughtyArab. Deserta, i. 224; Sab. ערבן, ערב, אערב CIS iv. p. 123, Assyrian Aribu, Arubu, Arabi, people in N. Arabia, DlPa 295 f. 304 f. COT Je 25:24; also Urbi DlPa 305 f. of nomad ‘Arab’ tribes);—מַלְכֵי ע׳ הַשּׁסֹכְנִים בַּמִּדְבָּר Je 25:24 (v. i. עֵרֶב), 2 Ch 9:14 + ‖ 1 K 10:15 (v. id.); ע׳ also Ez 27:21 + 30:5 (v. id.); v. especially NöArabia in Ency. Bib.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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, 1 with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Arabia (3); of Arabia (2); the Arab\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 21:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.13/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א בַּעְרָ֑ב בַּיַּ֤עַר בַּעְרַב֙ תָּלִ֔ינוּ אֹֽרְח֖וֹת דְּדָנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].oracle on Arabia in the thicket\[s\] in Arabia you.will.lodge O.caravans of.Dedanites

*JPS 1917:* The burden upon Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.

[Jeremiah 25:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.24/#tree)

וְאֵ֖ת כָּל־מַלְכֵ֣י עֲרָ֑ב וְאֵת֙ כָּל־מַלְכֵ֣י הָעֶ֔רֶב הַשֹּׁכְנִ֖ים בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and (et) all the.kings of.Arabia and (et) all the.kings of the.mixed.people\[s\] \[who\] dwell in the wilderness

*JPS 1917:* and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the wilderness;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6152.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6152/): 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).