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Strong's #6152 - עֲרַב
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1) steppe-dwellers
1a) the people inhabiting the country east and south of Canaan, the nomadic desert Bedouins
1b) Arabians, Arabs
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עֲרָב proper name, of a people collective steppe-dwellers of North Arabia (Wetzst ZVölkerpsych. vii. 463f.; extended later (so Herod ii. 11etc.) to whole peninsula, compare Arabic the Arabs, Bedúwy the people, Doughty Arab. Deserta, i. 224; Sabean ערבן, ערב, אערב CIS iv. p. 123, Assyrian Aribu, Arubu, Arabi, people in North Arabia, Dl Pa 295f., 304f. COT Jeremiah 25:24; also Urbi Dl Pa 305f. of nomad 'Arab' tribes); — הַשֹּׁכְנִים בַּמִּדְבָּר׳מַלְכֵי ע Jeremiah 25:24 (see I. עֵרֶב), 2 Chronicles 9:14 + "" 1 Kings 10:15 (see id.); ׳ע also Ezekiel 27:21 + Ezekiel 30:5 (see id.); see especially Nö Arabia in Ency. Bib.
עֲרַב Ch. to mix, to mingle. Pael, Daniel 2:43. Ithpael, pass. ibid.