עָרֹב
ʻârôb · aw-robe'
a mosquito (from its swarming)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6148 (עָרַב);
a mosquito (from its swarming)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: divers sorts of flies, swarm.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the head, the highest › the house, what is within
To see and know of the head, the highest of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָרֹב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- swarms2 · 22%
- divers sorts of flies2 · 22%
- of swarms1 · 11%
- swarm1 · 11%
- of the swarm1 · 11%
- that the swarms1 · 11%
- the swarms1 · 11%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.