Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6158
עֹרֵב
orebo-rabe'
raven
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻôrêb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6158is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6158
a raven (from its dusky hue)
The King James renders it: raven.
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
oreb is rendered "raven". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 8:7and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8:7הָֽעֹרֵ֑ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in nine of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- raven2
- a raven1
- and raven1
- and the ravens1
- for the raven1
- like the raven1
- ravens of1
- the raven1
- the ravens1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- עֹרֵ֖ב2
- הָֽעֹרֵ֑ב1
- הָעֹרְבִ֣ים1
- וְהָעֹרְבִ֗ים1
- וְעֹרֵ֖ב1
- כָּעוֹרֵֽב׃1
- לָעֹרֵ֗ב1
- עֹ֝רֵ֗ב1
- עֹרְבֵי־1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
- הָֽעֹרֵ֑בhaorevthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the raven
Leviticus
one use
any kind of raven,
- עֹרֵ֖בʾorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: raven
Deuteronomy
one use
any kind of raven,
- עֹרֵ֖בʾorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: raven
1 Kings
two uses
And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
- הָעֹרְבִ֣יםhaorevimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the ravens
The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.
- וְהָעֹרְבִ֗יםvehaorevimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the ravens
Job
one use
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
- לָעֹרֵ֗בlaorevpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the raven
Psalms
one use
He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
- עֹ֝רֵ֗בʾorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: a raven
Proverbs
one use
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
- עֹרְבֵי־ʾorevei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: ravens of
Song of Solomon
one use
His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
- כָּעוֹרֵֽב׃kaorevpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the raven
Isaiah
one use
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
- וְעֹרֵ֖בveorevconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and raven
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.