STRONGS NUMBER H6154


Word Summary
ereb: mixture, mixed company
Original Word: עֵרֶב
Transliteration: ereb
Phonetic Spelling: (ay'-reb)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: mixture, mixed company
Meaning: Arabia -- mixture, mixed company
Strong's Concordance
Arabia, mingled people, mixed multitude, woof

Or mereb (1 Kings 10:15), (with the article prefix), {eh'-reb}; from arab; the web (or transverse threads of cloth); also a mixture, (or mongrel race) -- Arabia, mingled people, mixed (multitude), woof.

see HEBREW arab

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6154. ereb

I. עֵ֫רֶבnoun masculineExodus 12:38 mixture, mixed company; — heterogeneous body attached to a people; to Israel 12:38 (E), Nehemiah 13:3; to Egyptians Jeremiah 25:20 (ᵑ9‎ joins to 25:19, so Gie); to Chaldeans 50:37; in 25:24 strike out הָעֶרֶב ֗֗֗ וְאֵת‎ as doublet (so Gie, compare ᵐ5‎); in 1 Kings 10:15 read עֲרָב‎ (as "" 2 Chronicles 9:14, so Benz Kit and others); Ezekiel 30:5 read probably id. (Co).

II. עֵ֫רֶבnoun [masculine] woof (as mixed, interwoven, with warp); — Leviticus 13:48 + 8t. 13 (all opposed to שְׁתִיwarp), compare GFMPAOS 1889, clxxviii.