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title: עֲרָבִי — steppe-dweller · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֲרָבִי (lemma:עֲרָבִי), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: steppe-dweller. BDB 1906: n.gent. steppe-dweller. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֲרָבִי

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«עֲרָבִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **steppe-dweller** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:עֲרָבִי · **BDB:** עֲרָבִי

### Glosses

an.Arab (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

steppe-dweller [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.gent. steppe-dweller [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.gent. of foregoing, steppe-dweller;—Is 13:20; כַּעֲרֶבִי בַּמִּדְבָּר֑ Je 3:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (14 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֲרָבִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e8_5b8_5d1_5b4_5d9/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 13:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.20/)

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לֹֽא־תֵשֵׁ֣ב לָנֶ֔צַח וְלֹ֥א תִשְׁכֹּ֖ן עַד־דּ֣וֹר וָד֑וֹר וְלֹֽא־יַהֵ֥ל שָׁם֙ עֲרָבִ֔י וְרֹעִ֖ים לֹא־יַרְבִּ֥צוּ שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.remain to perpetuity and not it.will.settle until a.generation and a.generation and not he.will.pitch.tent there an.Arab and shepherds not they.will.make.lie.down there

*JPS 1917:* It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

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[Jeremiah 3:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.2/)

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שְׂאִֽי־עֵינַ֨יִךְ עַל־שְׁפָיִ֜ם וּרְאִ֗י אֵיפֹה֙ לֹ֣א שֻׁכַּ֔בְתְּ עַל־דְּרָכִים֙ יָשַׁ֣בְתְּ לָהֶ֔ם כַּעֲרָבִ֖י בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַתַּחֲנִ֣יפִי אֶ֔רֶץ בִּזְנוּתַ֖יִךְ וּבְרָעָתֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* lift.up eyes your on bare.heights and see where? not have.you.been.lain.with at roads you.sat for them like an.Arab in the wilderness and you.have.polluted \[the\].land by prostitution(s) your and by wickedness your

*JPS 1917:* Lift up thine eyes unto the high hills, and see: Where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotries and with thy wickedness.

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