Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4628
מַעֲרָב
maarabmah-ar-awb'
west
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maʻărâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4628is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4628
the west (as a region of the evening sun)
The King James renders it: west.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
maarab is rendered "west". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Chronicles 7:28Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.
1 Chronicles 7:28וְלַֽמַּעֲרָ֗ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's fourteen uses are in 1 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- west -ward3
- and from west2
- and to the west2
- to the west2
- and from setting place1
- and from setting place its1
- from setting place1
- from west1
- the west1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַעֲשֶׂה | maaseh | deed: work | Uses236 |
| מַעֲלָל | maalal | deed | Uses41 |
| מַעֲלָה | maalah | thought | Uses32 |
| מַעֲשֵׂר | maaser | tithe | Uses32 |
| מַעֲרָכָה | maarakah | rank | Uses19 |
| מַעֲלֶה | maaleh | ascent | Uses18 |
| מַעֲבָר | maabar | ford | Uses11 |
| מַעֲרֶכֶת | maareketh | row | Uses10 |
| מַעֲרָב | maarab | merchandise | Uses9 |
| מַעֲכָתִי | Maakathi | Maacathite | Uses8 |
| מַעֲנֶה | maaneh | answer | Uses7 |
| מַעֲמָד | maamad | office | Uses5 |
and 18 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב2
- הַֽמַּעֲרָב֙1
- וְלַֽמַּעֲרָ֗ב1
- וְלַֽמַּעֲרָֽב׃ ס1
- וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֖ב1
- וּמִמַּ֣עֲרָבָ֔ה1
- לַֽמַּעֲרָ֔ב1
- לַֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב1
- מִֽמַּֽעֲרָ֑ב1
- מִֽמַּעֲרָב֙1
- מַעְרָ֑בָה1
- מַעְרָבָה֩1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular3HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)3HNcmsa/Sd
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/R/Ncfsa/Sp3fs
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
1 Chronicles
five uses
Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.
- וְלַֽמַּעֲרָ֗בvelamaaravconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the west
These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.
- וְלַֽמַּעֲרָֽב׃ סvelamaaravconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the west
The lots for the West Gate and the Shallecheth Gate on the ascending highway fell to Shuppim and Hosah. There were guards stationed at every watch.
- לַֽמַּעֲרָ֔בlamaaravpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the west
As for the court on the west, there were four at the highway and two at the court.
- לַֽמַּעֲרָ֑בlamaaravpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the west
From the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his relatives, 1,700 capable men, had charge of the affairs of Israel west of the Jordan for all the work of the LORD and for the service of the king.
- מַעְרָ֑בָהma'ravahnoun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: west -ward
2 Chronicles
two uses
It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.
- מַּעְרָ֖בָהma'ravahnoun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: west -ward
After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.
- מַעְרָבָה֩ma'ravahnoun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: west -ward
Psalms
three uses
For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,
- וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑בumimaaravconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from setting place
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
- מִֽמַּֽעֲרָ֑בmimaaravpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from west
and gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.
- וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑בumimaaravconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from west
Isaiah
three uses
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.
- וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֖בumimaaravconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from west
so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
- וּמִמַּ֣עֲרָבָ֔הumimaaravahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and from setting place its
So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
- מִֽמַּעֲרָב֙mimaaravpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from setting place
Daniel
one use
As I was contemplating all this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came out of the west, crossing the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground.
- הַֽמַּעֲרָב֙hamaaravthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the west
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.