Original Word: עֲרָב
Part of Speech: Proper Name
Transliteration: `Arab
Pronunciation: ah-RAHV
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-awb')
KJV: Arabia
Word Origin: [from H6150 (עָרַב - close) in the figurative sense of sterility]

1. Arab (i.e. Arabia), a country East of Israel

Arabia

Or marab {ar-ab'}; from arab in the figurative sense of sterility; Arab (i.e. Arabia), a country East of Palestine -- Arabia.

see HEBREW arab

עֲרַב noun [masculine] desert-plateau, steppe (compare Che^{Intr. Is. 129}); — בַּעֲרָ֑ב בַּעֲרַב (si vera lectio) Isaiah 21:13 (twice in verse) in the steppe (of what we know as North Arabia); but in v^b Vrss Lo Che Gu^Kau and others בָּעֶרֶב in the evening.

עֲרָב proper name, of a people collective steppe-dwellers of North Arabia (Wetzst^{ZVölkerpsych. vii. 463 f.}; extended later (so Herod^{ii. 11 etc}.) to whole peninsula, compare Arabic the Arabs, Bedúwy the people, Doughty^{Arab. Deserta, i. 224}; Sabean ערבן, ערב, אערב CIS^{iv. p. 123}, Assyrian Aribu, Arubu, Arabi, people in North Arabia, Dl^{Pa 295 f., 304 f.} COT^{Jeremiah 25:24}; also Urbi Dl^{Pa 305 f.} of nomad 'Arab' tribes); — הַשֹּׁכְנִים בַּמִּדְבָּר ׳מַלְכֵי ע Jeremiah 25:24 (see I. עֵרֶב), 2 Chronicles 9:14 + "" 1 Kings 10:15 (see id.); ׳ע also Ezekiel 27:21 + Ezekiel 30:5 (see id.); see especially Nö^{Arabia in Ency. Bib}.

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