עֵרֶב erev

Hebrew word for “mixture” · Strong’s H6154 · used 15 times in 15 verses

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Meaning

1) woof; 1a) as mixed, interwoven; 1b) knitted material

Senses in the lexicon

• mixture (9)
• racial-mix (4)
• Arabia (2)

How it is translated

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

• woof 9
• foreigner 3
• mixed company 1
• person of mixed ancestry 1
• arabs 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 13 (9), Jeremiah 25 (2), Exodus 12 (1), Nehemiah 13 (1), Jeremiah 50 (1), Ezekiel 30 (1)

Forms

• הערב 8
• בערב 5
• ערב 2

Words used with it

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

• שְׁתִי sheti “warp” 9
• עוֹר or “skin” 9
• נֶגַע nega “plague” 8
• אוֹ o “or” 9
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 8
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 6
• צָרַעַת tsaraat “leprosy” 4
• פֵּשֶׁת pishteh “flax” 3
• צֶמֶר tsemer “wool” 3
• מָאַר maar “to malign” 2
• רָאָה raah “to see” 5
• פָּשָׂה pasah “to spread” 2

Key verses

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

• Exodus 12:38 — And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
• Leviticus 13:48 — Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
• Leviticus 13:51 — And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work…
• Leviticus 13:52 — He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy;…
• Leviticus 13:57 — And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading thou shalt burn that wherein the plague…
• Leviticus 13:58 — And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed…
• Leviticus 13:59 — This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to…
• Nehemiah 13:3 — Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
• Jeremiah 25:20 — And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the…
• Jeremiah 25:24 — And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
• Jeremiah 50:37 — A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is…
• Ezekiel 30:5 — Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

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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.