H6153 עֶרֶב (ʻereb) eh'-reb

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

evening

Strong's Definition

dusk

Derivation: from H6150 (עָרַב);

KJV Usage: [phrase] day, even(-ing, tide), night.

TWOT Reference: 1689a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) evening, night, sunset

1a) evening, sunset

1b) night

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2073 G2073 G2250 G3796

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

עֶ֫רֶב (e.rev) — evening. 1) evening, night, sunset 1a) evening, sunset 1b) night

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עֶרֶב (H6153)

noun m · ערב

Time | ≈ בֹּקֶר · לַיְלָה · נֶשֶׁף

evening = the time of day when the sun starts going down, when people leave their work and go home, have food, and go to sleep; this is also the time of the evening sacrifice, and the time when an unclean person who has gone through the cleansing rituals is declared clean, when fasting and mourning come to an end, and when the exposed body of an executed person needs to be removed

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name · ערב

Classes

mixed rabble, foreigners = group of people of mixed ethnic origin

1KI 10:15 · JER 25:24

¹ HAB 1:8 MT HOTTP-C RSV ESV "evening wolves" NIV NRSV "wolves at dusk" GNT "hungry wolves" CEV "wolves hunting at sunset" | LXX "λύκους τῆς Ἀραβίας" NJPS "wolves of the steppe" REB "wolves of the plain" = זְאֵבֵי עֳרָב ² ZEP 3:3 MT HOTTP-C RSV NIV NRSV ESV "evening wolves" GNT "hungry wolves" CEV "wolves | in the evening they attack" | LXX "λύκοι τῆς Ἀραβίας" NJPS "wolves of the steppe" NJB "wolves of the wastelands" REB "wolves of the plain" =זְאֵבֵי עֳרָב ³ 1KI 10:15 MT | RSV NJPS NJPS NRSV REB CEV "Arabia" NIV GNT "Arabian" NJB "Arab" | ESV "the west" ⁴ JER 25:24 MT LXX "τοὺς συμμίκτους" | RSV NIV NJPS NJB REB NRSV REB GNT ESV "Arabia" CEV "Arabian"

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

עֶ֫רֶב 131 n.[m.] (sun)set, evening

evening, orig. sunset

du. in phrase between two evenings, i.e. prob. between sunset and dark

(late poet.) = night

base

Bible Occurrences (125)

1:5 1:8 1:13 1:19 1:23 1:31 8:11 19:1 24:11 24:63 29:23 30:16 49:27

12:6 12:18 16:6 16:8 16:12 16:13 18:13 18:14 27:21 29:39 29:41 30:8

6:20 11:24 11:25 11:27 11:28 11:31 11:32 11:39 11:40 14:46 15:5 15:6 15:7 15:8 15:10 15:11 15:16 15:17 15:18 15:19 15:21 15:22 15:23 15:27 17:15 22:6 23:5 23:32 24:3

9:3 9:5 9:11 9:15 9:21 19:7 19:8 19:10 19:19 19:21 19:22 28:4 28:8

16:4 16:6 23:11 28:67

5:10 7:6 8:29 10:26

19:16 20:23 20:26 21:2

2:17

14:24 20:5 30:17

1:12 11:2 11:13

17:6 22:35

16:15

16:40 23:30

2:4 13:11 18:34 31:3

3:3 9:4 9:5

2:14

4:20 7:4

30:5 55:17 59:6 59:14 65:8 90:6 104:23 141:2

7:9

11:6

17:14

6:4

12:4 12:7 24:18 33:22 46:2

8:14 8:26 9:21

1:8

2:7 3:3

14:7

Genesis 1:5

God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day.

Genesis 1:8

God called the expanse sky. And there was evening, and there was morning — the second day.

Genesis 1:13

And there was evening, and there was morning — the third day.

Genesis 1:19

And there was evening, and there was morning — the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23

And there was evening, and there was morning — the fifth day.

Genesis 1:31

And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, [it was] very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.

Genesis 8:11

And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening... with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Genesis 19:1

Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of [the city]. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown...,