Maʻărâb — H4628

Definition

masculine noun

the west (as a region of the evening sun)

1. setting place, west, westward

Usually translated as

west

Origin

or (feminine) maʻărâbâh; from H6150, in the sense of shading

• Derived from ʻârab (H6150)

Greek equivalents

• líps (G3047)

Occurrences

Maʻărâb occurs 14 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (5), 2 Chronicles (2), Psalms (3), Isaiah (3), Daniel (1)

• 1 Chronicles 7:28 — And their possessions and habitations were, Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward (וְלַֽמַּעֲרָ֗ב) Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
• 1 Chronicles 12:15 — These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west (וְלַֽמַּעֲרָֽב).
• 1 Chronicles 26:16 — To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward (לַֽמַּעֲרָ֔ב), with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
• 1 Chronicles 26:18 — At Parbar westward (לַֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב), four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
• 1 Chronicles 26:30 — And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward (מַעְרָ֑בָה) in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.
• 2 Chronicles 32:30 — This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side (מַּעְרָ֖בָה) of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
• 2 Chronicles 33:14 — Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side (מַעְרָבָה֩) of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
• Psalms 75:6 — For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west (וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב), nor from the south.
• Psalms 103:12 — As far as the east is from the west (מִֽמַּֽעֲרָ֑ב), so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
• Psalms 107:3 — And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west (וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב), from the north, and from the south.
• Isaiah 43:5 — Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west (וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֖ב);
• Isaiah 45:6 — That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west (וּמִמַּ֣עֲרָבָ֔ה), that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
• Isaiah 59:19 — So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west (מִֽמַּעֲרָב֙), and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
• Daniel 8:5 — And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west (הַֽמַּעֲרָב֙) on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.