מַעֲרָב maarav

Hebrew word for “west” · Strong’s H4628 · used 14 times in 14 verses

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Meaning

setting place, west, westward

How it is translated

Glosses given for maarav in context, with how often each is used:

• west 8
• west -ward 3
• setting place 3

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 26 (3), 1 Chronicles 7 (1), 1 Chronicles 12 (1), 2 Chronicles 32 (1), 2 Chronicles 33 (1), Psalms 75 (1), Psalms 103 (1), Psalms 107 (1), Isaiah 43 (1), Isaiah 45 (1)

Forms

• מערבה 3
• וממערב 3
• ולמערב 2
• למערב 2
• ממערב 2
• וממערבה 1
• המערב 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with maarav more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מִזְרָח mizrach “east” 7
• גִּיחוֹן gichon “Gihon” 2
• מְסִלָּה mesillah “highway” 2
• מוֹצָא motsa “exit” 2
• קָבַץ qavats “to gather” 2
• שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh “sun” 2
• אֲנִי ani “I” 3
• יַרְדֵּן yarden “Jordan” 2
• חַיִל chayil “strength” 2
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 2
• יָרֵא yare “to fear” 2
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 2

Key verses

The verses using maarav that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Chronicles 12:15 — These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the…
• 1 Chronicles 26:16 — To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
• 1 Chronicles 26:30 — And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward…
• 2 Chronicles 32:30 — This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in…
• 2 Chronicles 33:14 — Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed…
• Psalms 75:6 — For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
• Psalms 103:12 — As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
• Psalms 107:3 — And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
• Isaiah 43:5 — Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
• Isaiah 45:6 — That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
• Isaiah 59:19 — So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the…
• Daniel 8:5 — And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.