STRONGS NUMBER H6152


Word Summary
Arab: "steppe-dwellers", a country East of Isr
Original Word: עֲרָב
Transliteration: Arab
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-awb')
Part of Speech: Proper Name
Short Definition: "steppe-dwellers", a country East of Isr
Meaning: Arabia -- "steppe-dwellers", a country East of Israel
Strong's Concordance
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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6152. Arab

עֲרַבnoun [masculine] desert-plateau, steppe (compare CheIntr. Is. 129); — בַּעֲרַב בַּעֲרָ֑ב‎ (si vera lectio) Isaiah 21:13 (twice in verse) in the steppe (of what we know as North Arabia); but in vb Vrss Lo Che GuKau and others בָּעֶרֶבin the evening.

עֲרָבproper 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 אערב ערב, ערבן,‎ 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); — ע ׳מַלְכֵי בַּמִּדְבָּר הַשֹּׁכְנִים25:24 (see I. עֵרֶב‎), 2 Chronicles 9:14 + "" 1 Kings 10:15 (see id.); ׳ע‎ also Ezekiel 27:21 + 30:5 (see id.); see especially NöArabia in Ency. Bib.