עָרֹב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6157

swarm — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

swarm tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרֹב: n.m. swarm tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Ex 8, 20; prob. swarm (mixture, from incessant, involved motion; LagBN 112 doubts);—of plague of stinging flies, coming in a swarm (v. Di Ex) Ex 8:17(×2) + 5 times 8 (J), ψ 78:45; 105:31.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (14 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: swarm (5); a swarm (2); a swarm of flies (2).

In the verses

Psalms 105:31 · tree →

אָ֭מַר וַיָּבֹ֣א עָרֹ֑ב כִּ֝נִּ֗ים בְּכָל־גְּבוּלָֽם׃

Word for word: he.spoke and it.came a.swarm.of.flies gnats in all territory their

JPS 1917: He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats in all their borders.

Psalms 78:45 · tree →

יְשַׁלַּ֬ח בָּהֶ֣ם עָ֭רֹב וַיֹּאכְלֵ֑ם וּ֝צְפַרְדֵּ֗עַ וַתַּשְׁחִיתֵֽם׃

Word for word: he.sent among them a.swarm.of.flies and it devoured.them and frog[s] and it ruined.them

JPS 1917: He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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