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title: מַעֲרָב — west · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַעֲרָב (4628), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: west. BDB 1906: west. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַעֲרָב

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«מַעֲרָב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **west** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 14 times · **Key:** 4628 · **BDB:** מַעֲרָב⁴

### Glosses

west (8); westward (3); setting.place (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

west [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4628/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

west [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4628/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] west (late) (place of sunset);—מִמַּעֲרָבָה (= -בָהּ, cf. De Ges§ 91 e) Is 45:6 from its setting-place (opp. מִמִּזְרַח־שֶׁמֶשׁ); מַעֲרָב opp. מִזְרָח also 43:5; 59:19 ψ 103:12; 107:3, so לַמּ׳ westward 1 Ch 7:28; 12:16 (van d. H. v 15), 26:16, 18; מ׳ opp. מוֹצָא ψ 75:7; מִן־הַמִּעֲרָב (alone) Dn 8:5; c. ה loc. מַעֲרָ֫בָה 1 Ch 26:30 westward, sq. לְ = to the west of 2 Ch 32:30; 33:14, מִמּ׳ לַגִּבְעָה Ju 20:33 according to 𝔊 (not B) 𝔙 Be GFM al. (v. \[מַעֲרֶה\]).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַעֲרָב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4628/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 103:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.12/)

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כִּרְחֹ֣ק מִ֭זְרָח מִֽמַּֽעֲרָ֑ב הִֽרְחִ֥יק מִ֝מֶּ֗נּוּ אֶת־פְּשָׁעֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* as is.far.away east from west he.has.removed.far.away from us (et) transgressions our

*JPS 1917:* As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.

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[Psalms 75:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.75.7/)

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כִּ֤י לֹ֣א מִ֭מּוֹצָא וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב וְ֝לֹ֗א מִמִּדְבַּ֥ר הָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not \[is\].from.\[the\] going.out and from.\[the\] setting.place and not \[is\].from.\[the\] wilderness exaltation

*JPS 1917:* For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the wilderness, cometh lifting up.

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