עֶרֶבʻereb
(sun)set, evening
Pronunciation: eh'-reb · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6153
Meanings
1.
a. evening, originally sunset (Genesis 8:11; Genesis 24:11; 2 Samuel 11:2)
b. dual in phrase, between the two evenings, i.e. probably between sunset and dark (Exodus 12:6; Exodus 16:12; Exodus 29:39)
c. other phrases are (Jeremiah 6:4; Jeremiah 6:5; 2 Kings 16:15)
2. = night (Job 7:4; Proverbs 7:9)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 134 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:5 God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.
- Genesis 1:8 God called the space “sky.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.
- Genesis 1:13 And evening passed and morning came, marking the third day.
- Genesis 1:19 And evening passed and morning came, marking the fourth day.
- Genesis 1:23 And evening passed and morning came, marking the fifth day.
- Genesis 1:31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
See every passage
- Genesis 1:5, 1:8, 1:13, 1:19, 1:23, 1:31, 8:11, 19:1, 24:11, 24:63, 29:23, 30:16, 49:27
- Exodus 12:6, 12:18, 16:6, 16:8, 16:12, 16:13, 18:13, 18:14, 27:21, 29:39, 29:41, 30:8
- Leviticus 6:20, 11:24, 11:25, 11:27, 11:28, 11:31, 11:32, 11:39, 11:40, 14:46, 15:5, 15:6, 15:7, 15:8, 15:10, 15:11, 15:16, 15:17, 15:18, 15:19, 15:21, 15:22, 15:23, 15:27, 17:15, 22:6, 23:5, 23:32, 24:3
- Numbers 9:3, 9:5, 9:11, 9:15, 9:21, 19:7, 19:8, 19:10, 19:19, 19:21, 19:22, 28:4, 28:8
- Deuteronomy 16:4, 16:6, 23:11, 28:67
- Joshua 5:10, 7:6, 8:29, 10:26
- Judges 19:16, 20:23, 20:26, 21:2
- Ruth 2:17
- 1 Samuel 14:24, 20:5, 30:17
- 2 Samuel 1:12, 11:2, 11:13
- 1 Kings 17:6, 22:35
- 2 Kings 16:15
- 1 Chronicles 16:40, 23:30
- 2 Chronicles 2:4, 13:11, 18:34, 31:3
- Ezra 3:3, 9:4, 9:5
- Esther 2:14
- Job 4:20, 7:4
- Psalms 30:5, 55:17, 59:6, 59:14, 65:8, 90:6, 104:23, 141:2
- Proverbs 7:9
- Ecclesiastes 11:6
- Isaiah 17:14
- Jeremiah 6:4
- Ezekiel 12:4, 12:7, 24:18, 33:22, 46:2
- Daniel 8:14, 8:26, 9:21
- Habakkuk 1:8
- Zephaniah 2:7, 3:3
- Zechariah 14:7
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).