עֶרֶב

erev · evening

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6153 · appears 134 times in the Bible

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What it means

erev (עֶרֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “evening”.

When the sun goes down. Each day of Genesis 1 is counted "evening and morning"; so in Israel the day begins at sunset.

How to say it

e·rev

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

When the sun goes down and it grows dark.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Evening, dusk, when the sun goes down. BDB: dusk. It comes from עָרַב, “to grow dark”.

“There was evening and there was morning” Genesis 1:5
The Passover, “at twilight” Exodus 12:6
“Unclean until the evening” Leviticus 11:24
The time of prayer and of the offering Psalms 55:17 Psalms 141:2
“In the evening weeping lodges” Psalms 30:5

Historical and cultural background

In Genesis 1 each day is counted beginning with the evening: “And there was evening and there was morning”. In the laws of purity, light uncleanness lasts “until the evening” (Leviticus 11:24).

How we translate it

“Evening” 122 times, “twilight” 11, “evenings” 1. For the Passover, בֵּין הָעַרְבַּיִם, literally “between the two evenings”, is translated “at twilight” (Exodus 12:6); בָּעֶרֶב is “in the evening” (Deuteronomy 16:6).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

evening ×122
twilight ×11
evenings ×1

Related words

Comes from

עָרַב arav · grow dark

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

Genesis 1:5
And Elohim called the light “Day,” and the darkness he called “Night.” And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:8
And Elohim called the vault “Heavens.” And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:13
And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1:19
And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Genesis 1:23
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Genesis 1:31
And Elohim saw everything that he had made, and look, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 8:11
And the dove came to him at evening time, and look, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had decreased from the earth.
Genesis 19:1
The two messengers came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
Genesis 24:11
He made the camels kneel outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time the women who draw water go out.
Genesis 24:63
Isaac went out to meditate in the field as evening drew near; he lifted up his eyes and saw, and look, camels were coming.
Genesis 29:23
But in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her.
Genesis 30:16
Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, “To me you must come, for I have surely hired you with the mandrakes of my son.” So he lay with her that night.
Genesis 49:27
Benjamin is a wolf that tears; in the morning he devours the prey, and at evening he divides the spoil.”
Exodus 12:6
You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the community of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.
Exodus 12:18
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening.
Exodus 16:6
Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, “In the evening you will know that YHWH brought you out of the land of Egypt,
Exodus 16:8
Moses said, “This will happen when YHWH gives you in the evening meat to eat and bread in the morning to the full, because YHWH has heard your grumblings that you grumble against him. As for us, what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against YHWH.”
Exodus 16:12
“I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am YHWH your Elohim.’ ”
Exodus 16:13
In the evening quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
Exodus 18:13
The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.
Exodus 18:14
When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”
Exodus 27:21
In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set it in order from evening to morning before YHWH. It is a statute forever throughout their generations on the part of the sons of Israel.
Exodus 29:39
The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.
Exodus 29:41
The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, with the same grain offering as the morning and with the same libation you shall offer with it, for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to YHWH.
Exodus 30:8
and when Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, he shall offer it up in smoke, a continual incense before YHWH throughout your generations.
Leviticus 6:20
“This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to YHWH on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.
Leviticus 11:24
And by these you will become unclean; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 11:25
And whoever carries any of their carcasses shall wash his garments and be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 11:27
And all that walk on their paws, among all the animals that walk on all fours, they shall be unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 11:28
And whoever carries their carcasses shall wash his garments and be unclean until the evening; they shall be unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:31
These are unclean for you among all the swarming things; whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 11:32
And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead will be unclean, whether any article of wood or garment or skin or sack, any article with which work is done; it shall be put into water, and it will be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.
Leviticus 11:39
And if one of the beasts that you may have for food dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 11:40
And whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his garments and be unclean until the evening; and whoever carries its carcass shall wash his garments and be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 14:46
And whoever enters the house during all the days that he has isolated it will be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:5
And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:6
And whoever sits on the object on which the man with the discharge sat shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:7
And whoever touches the body of the man with the discharge shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:8
And if the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, he shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:10
And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening; and whoever carries those things shall wash his garments and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

And 94 more times.