עֶרֶב
ʻereb · H6153 · Hebrew · 134 occurrences
Meanings
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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
ExamplesGenesis 1:5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:8 God called the expanse “heaven.” And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
How it’s used In 6 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יוֹםday, time 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- שָׁלוֹשׁthree 1
- שְׁלִישִׁיthird 1
What it doesIt is the subject
9 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 6
- פָּנָהto turn, to face 2
- מָדַדto measure 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
105 occurrences in 5 groups
- עַדto, as far as, until 92
- בin/on/with 52
- בֵּיןbetween, among 21
- לto/for 16
- מִןfrom 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
17 occurrences in 7 groups
- עֵתtime, moment, period 6
- מִנְחָהgrain offering, gift, tribute 5
- זְאֵבwolf 2
- מוֹצָאgoing out 1
- מַרְאֶהappearance, sight, vision 1
- עֹלָהburnt offering 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἑσπέρα hespéra · G2073 · evening
- Greek ἑσπέρα renders Hebrew עֶרֶב, denoting the evening or twilight period, with direct semantic equivalence.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Time002002002010
- עֶרֶב is the ordinary word for evening, used throughout the creation account's repeated formula that there was evening and there was morning marking each day.
- Classes001001003001
- The word's use in the recurring formulaic pairing of evening and morning ties it to an association with a designated class of time, though this facet is not directly illustrated beyond the word's basic temporal meaning.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6153. ereb עֶ֫רֶב131 noun [masculine] 1Sa 20:5 strike out הַשְּׁלִישִׁית see We Dr and…
עֶ֫רֶב131 noun [masculine] 1Sa 20:5 strike out הַשְּׁלִישִׁית see We Dr and others] (sun)set, evening; — absolute ׳ע 2Ki 2:16 +, עָ֑רֶב Exo 12:18 +; construct עֶרֶב Pro 7:9; dual עַרְבַּיִם Exo 30:8 Exo 30:4t., בָּ֑יִם- Exo 12:16 Exo 12:5t. (all P); —
1. a. evening, originally sunset, and hence perhaps ע ׳לְעֵת at the time of sunset Gen 8:11 (J), Gen 24:11 (J; || הַשֹּׁאֲבֹת צֵאת לְעֵת), 2Sa 11:2; Isa 17:14 and (of the day of ׳י) Zec 14:7, הָע ׳עֵת Jos 8:29 (JE) ; usually ׳ע alone = time of sunset, evening: ׳בָּע in the evening Gen 19:1 (J), Gen 29:23 (E), Exo 12:18 (P), Deu 16:6 (+ כְּבוֺא שֶׁמֶשׁ), 1Ki 22:35 (compare || 2Ch 18:34 where + הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ בּוֺא לְעֵת) + 20 t. + ׳בָּע(ֿ)בָּע2Ch 13:11 (twice in verse) = every evening; ׳לָע at evening only late: 1Ch 16:40; 1Ch 23:30; 2Ch 2:3; Ezr 3:3; Psa 59:7; Psa 59:15; Psa 90:6; Ecc 11:6 ; ע ׳לִפְנוֺת at the turn of evening Gen 24:63 (J), Deu 23:12; ׳ע as adverb accusative Exo 16:6 (P), Psa 55:18; as marking duration of impurity, in phrase ׳עַדהָֿע Lev 11:24 Lev 11:30t. P + Lev 22:6 (H); of Day of Atonement ׳עַדעֿ ׳מֵע Lev 23:32 (P).
b. dual in phrase (only P) הָעַרְבַּיִם בֵּין between the two evenings, i.e. probably between sunset and dark (see Thes [various views fully given]; otherwise DiExo 12:6; on form as possibly only expanded plural see Ges§ 88c), Exo 12:6; Exo 16:12; Exo 29:39, Exo 29:41; Exo 30:8; Lev 23:5; Num 9:3, Num 9:5, Num 9:11; Num 28:4, Num 28:8 .
c. other phrases are: ע ׳צִלְלֵי Jer 6:4 (distinguished from צָהֳרָ֑יִם and לָ֑יְלָה Jer 6:5), (הָ)ע ׳מִנְחַה 2Ki 16:15; Ezr 9:4-5, Psa 141:2; Dan 9:21 ; ע ׳זְאֵבֵי see I. זְאֵב; for all combinations with בֹּקֶר morning, see ׳ב
1d, e. 2. (late poetry) = night, עָ֑רֶב Job 7:4; compare יוֺם בְּעֶרֶב בְּנֶשֶׁף Pro 7:9 (|| וִאֲפֵלָה לַיְלָה בְּאִישׁוֺן).
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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