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title: עֵרֶב — mixture · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֵרֶב (lemma:עֵרֶב), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: mixture. BDB 1906: n.m. mixture, mixed company. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֵרֶב

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«עֵרֶב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mixture** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** lemma:עֵרֶב · **BDB:** עֵ֫רֶב

### Glosses

foreigner (3); a.mixed.company (1); person.of.mixed.ancestry (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

mixture [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5e8_5b6_5d1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. mixture, mixed company [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5e8_5b6_5d1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 12, 38 mixture, mixed company;—heterogeneous body attached to a people; to Israel Ex 12:38 (E), Ne 13:3; to Egyptians Je 25:20 (𝔙 joins to v 19, so Gie); to Chaldeans 50:37; in Je 25:24 del. וְאֵת … הָעֶרֶב as doublet (so Gie, cf. 𝔊); in 1 K 10:15 read עֲרָב (as ‖ 2 Ch 9:14, so Benz Kit al.); Ez 30:5 read prob. id. (Co).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (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 «עֵרֶב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b5_5e8_5b6_5d1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 12:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.38/)

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וְגַם־עֵ֥רֶב רַ֖ב עָלָ֣ה אִתָּ֑ם וְצֹ֣אן וּבָקָ֔ר מִקְנֶ֖ה כָּבֵ֥ד מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and also a.mixed.company numerous it.went.up with them and flock\[s\] and herd\[s\] livestock numerous very

*JPS 1917:* And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

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[Nehemiah 13:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.3/)

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וַיְהִ֖י כְּשָׁמְעָ֣ם אֶת־הַתּוֹרָ֑ה וַיַּבְדִּ֥ילוּ כָל־עֵ֖רֶב מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was just as they.heard (et) the law and they.separated every person.of.mixed.ancestry from Israel

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the alien mixture.

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