אֶרֶב

erev · lair, ambush

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H695 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

erev (אֶרֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lair, ambush”.

A lair, a hiding place from which one lies in wait.

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

  1. The den where a wild beast lies.
  2. Lying hidden, waiting for prey.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • ambush ×1
  • lair ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Job 37:8

    And the animal goes into its lair, and in its dwellings it stays.

  • Job 38:40

    when they crouch in their dwellings and lie in the thicket in ambush?