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title: עַרְבִי — Arabian · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עַרְבִי (6163), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: Arabian. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Arabian. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עַרְבִי

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«עַרְבִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Arabian** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 6163 · **BDB:** עַרְבִי

### Glosses

Arabs (5); Arab (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Arabian [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6163/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. Arabian [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6163/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Arabian (in strictly ethnographic sense, Nöl.c.);—הָע׳ as subst. Ne 2:19 Geshem the Arabian, so 6:1; pl. הָעַרְבִים Ne 4:1 2 Ch 21:16; 22:1; also (written as NH) הערביים 26:7 (Qr הָעַרְבִים), and even הָעַרְבִיאִים 17:11.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (14 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עַרְבִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6163/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 21:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.21.16/)

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וַיָּ֨עַר יְהוָ֜ה עַל־יְהוֹרָ֗ם אֵ֣ת ר֤וּחַ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּים֙ וְהָ֣עַרְבִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־יַ֥ד כּוּשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and he.stirred.up Yahweh on Jehoram (et) the.spirit of the.Philistines and the Arabs who \[were\].on the.hand \[the\].Cushites

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians;

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[2 Chronicles 26:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.26.7/)

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וַיַּעְזְרֵ֨הוּ הָֽאֱלֹהִ֜ים עַל־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֧ים וְעַל־הָֽעַרְבִ֛ים הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים בְּגוּר־בָּ֖עַלגוּר־בָּ֖עַל וְהַמְּעוּנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he helped.him (the) God on \[the\].Philistines and on the Arabs \[who were\].dwelling in Gur Baal and the Meunites

*JPS 1917:* And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.

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