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title: עָרֹב — swarm · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָרֹב (6157), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: swarm. BDB 1906: n.m. swarm. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָרֹב

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«עָרֹב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **swarm** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 6157 · **BDB:** עָרֹב

### Glosses

swarm (5); a.swarm (2); a.swarm.of.flies (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

swarm [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6157/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. swarm [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6157/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 8, 20; prob. swarm (mixture, from incessant, involved motion; LagBN 112 doubts);—of plague of stinging flies, coming in a swarm (v. Di Ex) Ex 8:17(×2) + 5 times 8 (J), ψ 78:45; 105:31.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (14 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָרֹב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6157/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 105:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.31/)

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אָ֭מַר וַיָּבֹ֣א עָרֹ֑ב כִּ֝נִּ֗ים בְּכָל־גְּבוּלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.spoke and it.came a.swarm.of.flies gnats in all territory their

*JPS 1917:* He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats in all their borders.

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[Psalms 78:45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.45/)

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יְשַׁלַּ֬ח בָּהֶ֣ם עָ֭רֹב וַיֹּאכְלֵ֑ם וּ֝צְפַרְדֵּ֗עַ וַתַּשְׁחִיתֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.sent among them a.swarm.of.flies and it devoured.them and frog\[s\] and it ruined.them

*JPS 1917:* He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

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