Lexical Definition

‎יָרֵב‎ Yârêb (yaw-rabe') great ^N:N-M-P
from ‎רִיב‎; he will contend

Jareb. Compare ‎יָרִיב‎.

• § Jareb = "contender"
• Jareb, a symbolical name for Assyria

1) an epithet given to the king of Assyria

Extended Information

name of: תִּגְלַת פִּלְאֶסֶר

• A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.15.19
• Another name of tig.lat pil.e.ser (‎ת‎ִּ‎ג‎ְ‎ל‎ַ‎ת‎ ‎פ‎ִּ‎ל‎ְ‎א‎ֶ֫‎ס‎ֶ‎ר‎ "Tiglath-pileser" תִּגְלַת פִּלְאֶסֶר)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎יָרֵב‎ noun masculine, eipthet of Assyrian king (properly, si vera lectio, verb = let him contend, or (one who) contends); — only ‎׳‎‎מֶלֶךְ י‎ Hos 5:18; Hos 10:6, i.e. Tiglath-Pileser III; WMM^{ZAW xvii (1897), 335} proposes ‎מַלְכִּי רַב‎ (‎י‎- old noun ending) = Assyrian šarru rabbu; Che^{Expos., Nov. 1807, 864} ‎מלך רב‎; Che^{Ency. Bib. JAREB} conjecture ‎מלך ערבי‎, Arabian king; compare, further, Comm., Schr^{COT, on the passage JA} Selbie^{Hastings DB, JAREB and references}

Brown-Driver-Briggs References