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Lexicon :: Strong's H6153 - ʿereḇ

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עֶרֶב
Transliteration
ʿereḇ
Pronunciation
eh'-reb
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1689a

Strong’s Definitions

עֶרֶב ʻereb, eh'-reb; from H6150; dusk:— day, even(-ing, tide), night.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 137x

The KJV translates Strong's H6153 in the following manner: even (72x), evening (47x), night (4x), mingled (2x), people (2x), eventide (2x), eveningtide (with H6256) (2x), Arabia (1x), days (1x), even (with H996) (1x), evening (with H3117) (1x), evening (with H6256) (1x), eventide (with H6256) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 137x
The KJV translates Strong's H6153 in the following manner: even (72x), evening (47x), night (4x), mingled (2x), people (2x), eventide (2x), eveningtide (with H6256) (2x), Arabia (1x), days (1x), even (with H996) (1x), evening (with H3117) (1x), evening (with H6256) (1x), eventide (with H6256) (1x).

  1. evening, night, sunset

    1. evening, sunset

    2. night

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶרֶב ʻereb, eh'-reb; from H6150; dusk:— day, even(-ing, tide), night.
STRONGS H6153: Abbreviations
עֶ֫רֶב 131 noun [masculine] 1 Samuel 20:5 strike out הַשְּׁלִישִׁית see We Dr and others] (sun)set, evening; — absolute ע׳ 2 Kings 2:16 +, עָ֑רֶב Exodus 12:18 +; construct עֶרֶב Proverbs 7:9; dual עַרְבַּיִם Exodus 30:8 + 4 times, בָּ֑יִם - Exodus 12:16 + 5 times (all P); —
1.
a. evening, originally sunset, and hence perhaps לְעֵת ע׳ at the time of sunset Genesis 8:11 (J), Genesis 24:11 (J; || לְעֵת צֵאת הַשֹּׁאֲבֹת), 2 Samuel 11:2; Isaiah 17:14 and (of the day of י׳) Zechariah 14:7, עֵת הָע׳ Joshua 8:29 (JE) †; usually ע׳ alone = time of sunset, evening: בָּע׳ in the evening Genesis 19:1 (J), Genesis 29:23 (E), Exodus 12:18 (P), Deuteronomy 16:6 (+ שֶׁמֶשׁ כְּבוֺא), 1 Kings 22:35 (compare || 2 Chronicles 18:34 where + לְעֵת בּוֺא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ) + 20 times + בָּע(ֿ)בָּע׳ 2 Chronicles 13:11 (twice in verse) = every evening; לָע׳ at evening only late: † 1 Chronicles 16:40; 1 Chronicles 23:30; 2 Chronicles 2:3; Ezra 3:3; Psalm 59:7; Psalm 59:15; Psalm 90:6; Ecclesiastes 11:6 †; לִפְנוֺת ע׳ at the turn of evening † Genesis 24:63 (J), Deuteronomy 23:12; ע׳ as adverb accusative Exodus 16:6 (P), Psalm 55:18; as marking duration of impurity, in phrase עַדהָֿע׳ Leviticus 11:24 + 30 times P + Leviticus 22:6 (H); of Day of Atonement מֵע׳ עַדעֿ׳ Leviticus 23:32 (P).
b. dual in phrase (only P) בֵּין הָעַרְבַּיִם between the two evenings, i.e. probably between sunset and dark (see Thes [various views fully given]; otherwise DiExodus 12:6; on form as possibly only expanded plural see Ges§ 88 c), † Exodus 12:6; Exodus 16:12; Exodus 29:39, 41; Exodus 30:8; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:3, 5, 11; Numbers 28:4, 8 †.
c. other phrases are: צִלְלֵי ע׳ Jeremiah 6:4 (distinguished from צָהֳרָ֑יִם and לָ֑יְלָה Jeremiah 6:5), מִנְחַה (הָ)ע׳ 2 Kings 16:15; Ezra 9:4, 5; Psalm 141:2; Daniel 9:21; זְאֵבֵי ע׳ see I. זְאֵב; for all combinations with בֹּקֶר morning, see ב׳ 1d, e.
2. (late poetry) = night, עָ֑רֶב Job 7:4; compare בְּנֶשֶׁף בְּעֶרֶב יוֺם Proverbs 7:9 (|| בְּאִישׁוֺן לַיְלָה וִאֲפֵלָה).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:11; 19:1; 24:11; 24:63; 29:23

Exodus

12:6; 12:6; 12:16; 12:18; 12:18; 16:6; 16:12; 29:39; 29:41; 30:8; 30:8

Leviticus

11:24; 22:6; 23:5; 23:32

Numbers

9:3; 9:5; 9:11; 28:4; 28:8

Deuteronomy

16:6; 23:12

Joshua

8:29

1 Samuel

20:5

2 Samuel

11:2

1 Kings

22:35

2 Kings

2:16; 16:15

1 Chronicles

16:40; 23:30

2 Chronicles

2:3; 13:11; 18:34

Ezra

3:3; 9:4; 9:5

Job

7:4

Psalms

55:18; 59:7; 59:15; 90:6; 141:2

Proverbs

7:9; 7:9

Ecclesiastes

11:6

Isaiah

17:14

Jeremiah

6:4; 6:5

Daniel

9:21

Zechariah

14:7

H6153

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Strong's Number H6153 matches the Hebrew עֶרֶב (ʿereḇ),
which occurs 13 times in 13 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:3 - On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:11 - In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15 - On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:21 - And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7 - Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:8 - The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10 - And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 - And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21 - And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22 - And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:4 - The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:8 - The other lamb you shall offer at twilight. Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
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