Lexical Definition

‎עֲרָב‎ ʻĂrâb (ar-awb') Arabia ^N:N--L
or עֲרַב ʻĂrab (ar-ab'); from ‎עָרַב‎ in the figurative sense of sterility

Arabia.

• Arab (i.e. Arabia), a country East of Palestine

1) steppe-dwellers
1a) the people inhabiting the country east and south of Canaan, the nomadic desert Bedouins
1b) Arabians, Arabs

See Greek: Ἀραβία

Extended Information

spelling of: עֲרָב

• Arabia, desert-plateau, steppe
• Another spelling of a.rav (‎ע‎ֲ‎ר‎ָ‎ב‎ "Arabia" עֲרָב)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎עֲרַב‎ noun [masculine] desert-plateau, steppe (compare Che^{Intr. Is. 129}); — ‎בַּעֲרָ֑ב בַּעֲרַב‎ (si vera lectio) Isa 21:13 (twice in verse) in the steppe (of what we know as North Arabia); but in v^b Vrss Lo Che Gu^Kau and others ‎בָּעֶרֶב‎ in the evening.

‎עֲרָב‎ proper name, of a people collective steppe-dwellers of North Arabia (Wetzst^{ZVölkerpsych. vii. 463 f.}; extended later (so Herod^{ii. 11 etc}.) to whole peninsula, compare Arabic the Arabs, Bedúwy the people, Doughty^{Arab. Deserta, i. 224}; Sabean ‎ערבן‎, ‎ערב‎, ‎אערב‎ CIS^{iv. p. 123}, Assyrian Aribu, Arubu, Arabi, people in North Arabia, Dl^{Pa 295 f., 304 f.} COT^{Jer 25:24}; also Urbi Dl^{Pa 305 f.} of nomad 'Arab' tribes); — ‎הַשֹּׁכְנִים בַּמִּדְבָּר‎ ‎׳‎‎מַלְכֵי ע‎ Jer 25:24 (see I. ‎עֵרֶב‎), 2Chr 9:14 + || 1Kgs 10:15 (see id.); ‎׳‎‎ע‎ also Ezek 27:21 + Ezek 30:5 (see id.); see especially Nö^{Arabia in Ency. Bib}.

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