מַעֲרָב
maʻărâb · H4627 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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wares, merchandise
Goods and products that are intended for trade and commerce
ExamplesEzekiel 27:9 “The elders of Gebal and her wise men were with you repairing your leaks; All the ships of the sea and their sailors were with you in order to deal in your merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:13 “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traders; with human lives and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:17 “Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders; with the wheat of Minnith, cakes, honey, oil, and balsam they paid for your merchandise.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
9 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךְyour 9
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָפַלto fall 2
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 2
- עָרַבto pledge 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָרַבto pledge 1
- רֹבmultitude, abundance, numerous 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- סַחַר çachar · H5504 · gain, revenue
- Hebrew noun denoting merchandise or commercial trade goods; used similarly in contexts of commercial activity and trading
- רְכֻלָּה rᵉkullâh · H7404 · trading, trade, buying and selling
- Hebrew noun denoting merchandise or goods for trade; used for commercial wares in trading contexts
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἐμπορία emporía · G1711 · to be in business, to engage in a business, to trade
- Greek noun denoting merchandise, trade, or business activity; direct translation equivalent for the commercial/market sense of מַעֲרָב
- ἐμπόριον empórion · G1712 · marketplace
- Greek noun denoting a marketplace or commercial goods; closely matches the market/merchandise semantic range of מַעֲרָב
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Objects001
- מַעֲרָב denotes merchandise or wares as physical goods, illustrated at Ezekiel 27:9 and 27:13 ("they paid for your merchandise").
- Spatial Referents003002005
- מַעֲרָב also marks the marketplace as a spatial reference point of commercial exchange, illustrated at Ezekiel 27:17 ("Judah and the land of Israel... traded... for your merchandise").
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4627. maarab I. [מַעֲרָב] noun masculine usually collective articles of exchange,…
I. [מַעֲרָב] noun masculine usually
collective articles of exchange, merchandise (only of Tyre, Ezekiel 27); — suffix מַעֲרָבֵךְ Job 17:13; Job 17:17; Job 17:19; Job 17:25; Job 17:27a; Job 17:34; as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with עָרַב Job 17:9; Job 17:27; plural suffix מַעֲרָבַיִךְ Job 17:33 perhaps thy (diverse) wares (DHMVOJ viii (1894), 4 proposes, ingeniously, meaning imports, deriving from V. ערב enter, but improbable).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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