Lexicon Arab: Arabia Original Word: עֲרָבPart of Speech: Proper Name Transliteration: Arab Phonetic Spelling: (ar-awb') Short Definition: Arabia Brown-Driver-Briggs עֲרַב noun [masculine] desert-plateau, steppe (compare Che Intr. Is. 129); — בַּעֲרָ֑ב בַּעֲרַב (si vera lectio) Isaiah 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 (WetzstZVölkerpsych. vii. 463 f.; extended later (so Herodii. 11 etc.) to whole peninsula, compare Arabic the Arabs, Bedúwy the people, DoughtyArab. Deserta, i. 224; Sabean ערבן, ערב, אערב CISiv. p. 123, Assyrian Aribu, Arubu, Arabi, people in North Arabia, DlPa 295 f., 304 f. COTJeremiah 25:24; also Urbi DlPa 305 f. of nomad 'Arab' tribes); — הַשֹּׁכְנִים בַּמִּדְבָּר ׳מַלְכֵי ע Jeremiah 25:24 (see I. עֵרֶב), 2 Chronicles 9:14 + "" 1 Kings 10:15 (see id.); ׳ע also Ezekiel 27:21 + Ezekiel 30:5 (see id.); see especially NöArabia in Ency. Bib.
Strong's Arabia Or marab {ar-ab'}; from arab in the figurative sense of sterility; Arab (i.e. Arabia), a country East of Palestine -- Arabia. see HEBREW arab |
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