ʻêreb — H6154

Definition

masculine noun

the web (or transverse threads of cloth); also a mixture, (or mongrel race)

1. woof
1. as mixed, interwoven
2. knitted material
2. mixture, mixed people, mixed company

Usually translated as

woof, mingled people, Arabia, mixed

Origin

or ʻereb; (1 Kings 10:15), (with the article [prefix), from H6148

• Derived from ʻârab (H6148)

Occurrences

ʻêreb occurs 16 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Leviticus (9), 1 Kings (1), Nehemiah (1), Jeremiah (3), Ezekiel (1)

• Exodus 12:38 — And a mixed (עֵ֥רֶב) multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
• Leviticus 13:48 — Whether it be in the warp, or woof (בְעֵ֔רֶב); of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
• Leviticus 13:49 — And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof (בָעֵ֙רֶב֙), or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
• Leviticus 13:51 — And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof (בָעֵ֙רֶב֙), or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
• Leviticus 13:52 — He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof (הָעֵ֗רֶב), in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
• Leviticus 13:53 — And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof (בָעֵ֑רֶב), or in any thing of skin;
• Leviticus 13:56 — And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof (הָעֵֽרֶב):
• Leviticus 13:57 — And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof (בָעֵ֙רֶב֙), or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
• Leviticus 13:58 — And the garment, either warp, or woof (הָעֵ֜רֶב), or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
• Leviticus 13:59 — This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof (הָעֵ֔רֶב), or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
• 1 Kings 10:15 — Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
• Nehemiah 13:3 — Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude (עֵ֖רֶב).
• Jeremiah 25:20 — And all the mingled people (הָעֶ֔רֶב), and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
• Jeremiah 25:24 — And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people (הָעֶ֔רֶב) that dwell in the desert,
• Jeremiah 50:37 — A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people (הָעֶ֛רֶב) that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
• Ezekiel 30:5 — Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people (הָעֶ֣רֶב), and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.