King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4628
Transliteration: maarab or maarabah
Phonetic Spelling: (mah-ar-awb')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: west
Meaning: the west
Word Summary
maarab or maarabah: west
Original Word: מַעֲרָבTransliteration: maarab or maarabah
Phonetic Spelling: (mah-ar-awb')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: west
Meaning: the west
Strong's Concordance
west Or (feminine) maearabah {mah-ar-aw-baw'}; from arab, in the sense of shading; the west (as a region of the evening sun) -- west.
see HEBREW arab
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4628. maarab
or maarabah II. מַעֲרָב noun [masculine] west (late) (place of sunset); — מִמַּעֲרָבָה ( = בָ֯הּ, compare De Ges § 91 e) Isaiah 45:6 from its setting-place (opposed to מִמִּזְרַחשֶֿׁמֶשׁ); מַעֲרָב opposed to מִזְרָח also 43:5; 59:19; Psalm 103:12; 107:3, so ׳לַמּ westward 1 Chronicles 7:28; 12:16 (van d. H. v.12:15), 26:16, 18; ׳מ opposed to מוֺצָא Psalm 75:7; מִןהַּֿמַּעֲרָב (alone) Daniel 8:5; with ה locative מַעֲרָ֑בָה 1 Chronicles 26:30 westward, followed by לְ = to the west of2 Chronicles 32:30; 33:14, ׳מִמּ לַגִּבְעָה Judges 20:33 according to ᵐ5 (not B) ᵑ9 Be GFM and others (see [ מַעֲרֶה]).
VI. ערב (√ of following; compare Arabic be black, crow (raven, rook, etc.); Assyrian ârivu, êribu; Aramaic , עוְּרְבָּא, all crow, raven).