Lexical Definition

‎עֲרָבִי‎ ʻĂrâbîy (ar-aw-bee') Arab ^N:N--LG
or עַרְבִי ʻArbîy (ar-bee'); patrial from ‎עֲרָב‎

Arabian.

• § Arabian = see Arabia "mixed"
• an Arabian or inhabitant of Arab (i.e. Arabia)

1) an inhabitant of Arabia
1a) steppe-dweller

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎עֲרָבִי‎ name, of a people of foregoing, steppe-dweller; — Isa 13:20 ‎בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר‎ ‎׳‎‎כַּעֲרָבִ‎ Jer 3:2.

‎עַרְבִי‎ adjective, of a people Arabian (in strictly ethnographic sense, Nö^l.c.); — ‎׳‎‎הָע‎ as substantive Neh 2:19 Geshem the Arabian, so Neh 6:1 plural ‎הָעַרְבִים‎ Neh 4:1*; 2Chr 21:16; 2Chr 22:1 also (written as Late Hebrew) ‎הערביים‎ 2Chr 26:7 (Qr ‎הָעַרְבִים‎), and even ‎הָעַרְבִיאִים‎ 2Chr 17:11.

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