עָרֹב

«עָרֹב» in the Tanakh dictionary: swarm — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 9 times · Key: 6157 · BDB: עָרֹב

Glosses

swarm (5); a.swarm (2); a.swarm.of.flies (2)

Meaning (OSHB)

swarm tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. swarm tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Ex 8, 20; prob. swarm (mixture, from incessant, involved motion; LagBN 112 doubts);—of plague of stinging flies, coming in a swarm (v. Di Ex) Ex 8:17(×2) + 5 times 8 (J), ψ 78:45; 105:31.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (14 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «עָרֹב» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Psalms 105:31

אָ֭מַר וַיָּבֹ֣א עָרֹ֑ב כִּ֝נִּ֗ים בְּכָל־גְּבוּלָֽם׃

Word for word: he.spoke and it.came a.swarm.of.flies gnats in all territory their

JPS 1917: He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats in all their borders.

Psalms 78:45

יְשַׁלַּ֬ח בָּהֶ֣ם עָ֭רֹב וַיֹּאכְלֵ֑ם וּ֝צְפַרְדֵּ֗עַ וַתַּשְׁחִיתֵֽם׃

Word for word: he.sent among them a.swarm.of.flies and it devoured.them and frog[s] and it ruined.them

JPS 1917: He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

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