עֲרָבִיʻĂrâbîy

עֲרָבִי: steppe-dweller, of foregoing (Isaiah 13:20; Jeremiah 3:2)

Pronunciation: ar-aw-bee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6163

Meanings

עַרְבִי: Arabian, in strictly ethnographic sense (Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 6:1; Nehemiah 4:1; 2 Chronicles 21:16; 2 Chronicles 22:1)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 17:11 Some of the Philistines brought him gifts and silver as tribute, and the Arabs brought 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats.
  • 2 Chronicles 21:16 Then the Lord stirred up the Philistines and the Arabs, who lived near the Ethiopians, to attack Jehoram.
  • 2 Chronicles 22:1 Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram’s youngest son, their next king, since the marauding bands who came with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram reigned as king of Judah.
  • 2 Chronicles 26:7 God helped him in his wars against the Philistines, his battles with the Arabs of Gur, and his wars with the Meunites.
  • Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard of our plan, they scoffed contemptuously. “What are you doing? Are you rebelling against the king?” they asked.
  • Nehemiah 4:7 But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the work was going ahead and that the gaps in the wall of Jerusalem were being repaired, they were furious.
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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).