Lexical Definition

‎עֵרֶב‎ ʻêreb (ay'-reb) Arabia ^H:N-M
or עֶרֶב ʻereb (eh'-reb); (1 Kings 10:15), (with the article [prefix), from ‎עָרַב‎

Arabia, mingled people, mixed (multitude), woof.

• the web (or transverse threads of cloth)
• also a mixture, (or mongrel race)

1) woof
1a) as mixed, interwoven
1b) knitted material
2) mixture, mixed people, mixed company

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎עֵ֫רֶב‎ noun masculine^{Exod 12:38} mixture, mixed company; — heterogeneous body attached to a people; to Israel Exod 12:38 (E), Neh 13:3 to Egyptians Jer 25:20 (ᵑ9 joins to vJer 25:19, so Gie); to Chaldeans Jer 50:37 in Jer 25:24 strike out ‎וְאֵת ֗֗֗ הָעֶרֶב‎ as doublet (so Gie, compare ᵐ5); in 1Kgs 10:15 read ‎עֲרָב‎ (as || 2Chr 9:14, so Benz Kit and others); Ezek 30:5 read probably id. (Co).

II. ‎עֵ֫רֶב‎ noun [masculine] woof (as mixed, interwoven, with warp); — Lev 13:48 + 8t. 13 (all opposed to ‎שְׁתִי‎ warp), compare GFM^{PAOS 1889, clxxviii}.

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