erev · woof, mixed people

What it means

erev (עֵרֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “woof, mixed people”.

A word that names two things written alike: the people of various origins who joined Israel or lived among other peoples (Exodus 12:38; Jeremiah 25:20), and the woof, the threads that cross the loom widthwise (Leviticus 13).

How to say it

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. People of other nations who join a people and go along with it.
2. The cross threads of a fabric.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• knitted material ×9
• mixed peoples ×4
• mixed crowd ×1
• mixed people ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×9
• Nehemiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1

• Exodus 12:38

  And also a great mixed crowd went up with them, and flocks and herds, livestock in very great numbers.

• Leviticus 13:48

  or in the woven material or in the knitted material of linen or of wool, or in a skin or in any article made of skin,

• Leviticus 13:49

  and if the mark is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin, or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in any article of skin, it is a mark of leprosy, and it shall be shown to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:51

  He shall examine the mark on the seventh day; if the mark has spread in the garment or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in the skin, for whatever the skin is made for use, the mark is a malignant leprosy; it is unclean.

• Leviticus 13:52

  He shall burn the garment, or the woven material or the knitted material of wool or of linen, or any article of skin in which the mark is, for it is a malignant leprosy; it shall be burned with fire.

• Leviticus 13:53

  But if the priest examines it and, look, the mark has not spread in the garment or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in any article of skin,

• Leviticus 13:56

  But if the priest examines it and, look, the mark has faded after it has been washed, he shall tear it out of the garment or out of the skin or out of the woven material or out of the knitted material.

• Leviticus 13:57

  And if it appears again in the garment or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in any article of skin, it is breaking out; you shall burn with fire that in which the mark is.

• Leviticus 13:58

  But the garment, or the woven material or the knitted material, or any article of skin that you wash, and the mark departs from them, shall be washed a second time and be clean.

• Leviticus 13:59

  This is the instruction for a mark of leprosy in a garment of wool or of linen, or in the woven material or in the knitted material, or in any article of skin, for declaring it clean or for declaring it unclean.”

• Nehemiah 13:3

  It happened that when they heard the law, they separated all the mixed people from Israel.

• Jeremiah 25:20

  and all the mixed peoples, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

• Jeremiah 25:24

  and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed peoples who dwell in the wilderness;

• Jeremiah 50:37

  A sword against his horses and against his chariots and against all the mixed peoples who are in her midst, and they will become women! A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!

• Ezekiel 30:5

  Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed peoples, and Cub, and the sons of the land of the covenant with them by the sword will fall.