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Apr 3, 2023 · What does “erev” mean in Hebrew? English most often translates the Hebrew word “erev” as “evening.” But as the Jewish poet, Haim Nachman Bialik, (1873-1934) once said, “Reading the Bible in translation is like kissing your new bride through a veil.”
Oct 4, 2018 · I have seen the speculation that “orev” for raven derives from it being a bird of the aravah/wilderness, or from it being a dark bird (=from the “evening/dark” meaning of “erev”). Alternatively, the name may derive from the sound that the bird makes.
Feb 4, 2017 · In Hebrew, the term for "mixed multitude" is "erev rav." "Erev" here is a homonym (a word that sounds, and may even be spelled the same as another, but has a different, unrelated meaning) to the word that means "evening"; in this case it is from a root ( ayin, resh, vet) that means "mixed."
May 24, 2006 · Erev means foreigners in Nechemia 13:3, and there is a cognate word in Arabic meaning the same. ערוב arov: The wild animals of the fourth plague in Egypt (Shmot 8:20). Kutscher says the origin is unclear, but Klein associates it with "to mix".
According to one tradition, the origins of the Hebrew word for ‘evening’ – ‘Erev’ {ערב} – come from the old Hebrew verb ‘Le-Arev’ {לערב} which means ‘to mix’ or ‘to intermingle’ and refers to the special time of the day in which the sunset and light and darkness are ALL present and appear as a ‘mix.’
Mar 16, 2017 · The verb ayin-resh-bet (henceforth “ARB”) has several meanings; one of them is “mix.” See, e.g., Ps. 106:35: va-yitarvu va-goyim. The “mix” meaning very likely lies behind the term erev rav (the mixed multitude that lacked a common identity and left Egypt with the Israelites).
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Feb 3, 2017 · In Hebrew, the term for "mixed multitude" is "erev rav." "Erev" here is a homonym (a word that sounds, and may even be spelled the same as another, but has a different, unrelated meaning) to the word that means "evening"; in this case it is from a root (ayin, resh, vet) that means "mixed."
