ʻĂrâbîy — H6163
H6163 · Hebrew — ערבי
Pronunciation: ar-aw-bee'
Other spellings: ʻArbîy עַרְבִי
Definition
patronymic adjective
an Arabian or inhabitant of Arab (i.e. Arabia)
- Arabian = see Arabia "mixed"
- an inhabitant of Arabia
- steppe-dweller
Usually translated as
Arabian
Origin
or ʻArbîy; patrial from H6152
Occurrences
ʻĂrâbîy occurs 9 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Chronicles (4), Nehemiah (3), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1)
- 2 Chronicles 17:11 — Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians (הָֽעַרְבִיאִ֗ים) brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.
- 2 Chronicles 21:16 — Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians (וְהָ֣עַרְבִ֔ים), that were near the Ethiopians:
- 2 Chronicles 22:1 — And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians (בָֽעַרְבִ֖ים) to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
- 2 Chronicles 26:7 — And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians (הָֽעַרְבִ֛ים) that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.
- Nehemiah 2:19 — But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian (הָֽעַרְבִ֔י), heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
- Nehemiah 4:7 — But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians (וְהָעַרְבִ֨ים), and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
- Nehemiah 6:1 — Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian (הָֽעַרְבִ֜י), and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
- Isaiah 13:20 — It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian (עֲרָבִ֔י) pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
- Jeremiah 3:2 — Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian (כַּעֲרָבִ֖י) in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.