עָרֵב
ʻârêb · H6156 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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sweet, tasting well
State in which food tastes well and is considered desirable food; can be extended to refer to other things besides food
ExamplesProverbs 20:17 Bread obtained by a lie is sweet to a person, But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
Song of Solomon 2:14 “My dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding place of the mountain pathway, Let me see how you look, Let me hear your voice; For your voice is pleasant, And you look delightful.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- לֶחֶםbread, food 1
- קוֹלvoice, sound 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 1 word
- מָתוֹק mâthôwq · H4966 · tasty, sweet, pleasant
- Both words denote the sensory quality "sweet" and could substitute for each other in contexts describing taste or pleasantness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Good002001001031
- עָרֵב describes something sweet or pleasant, a favorable, agreeable quality.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6156. areb עָרֵב adjective sweet, pleasant; — שָׁ֑קֶר לֶחֶם ׳ע לָאִישׁ Pro 20:17; ע…
עָרֵב adjective sweet, pleasant; — שָׁ֑קֶר לֶחֶם ׳ע לָאִישׁ Pro 20:17; ע ׳קוֺלֵח Son 2:14.
IV. ערב (√ of following; possibly be arid; Thes compare Ethiopic image unavailable be arid, sterile, so BaentschDie Wüste (1883), 17, but dubious; Syriac = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic proper name of depression south of Dead Sea).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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