orev · raven

What it means

orev (עֹרֵב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “raven”.

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. A large black bird that eats carrion; the law declares it unclean.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• raven ×7
• ravens ×3

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 8:7

  and he sent out the raven, and it went going out and returning until the waters had dried up from the earth.

• Leviticus 11:15

  every raven according to its kind,

• Deuteronomy 14:14

  every kind of raven,

• 1 Kings 17:4

  And it will be that you will drink from the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

• 1 Kings 17:6

  And the ravens were bringing him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

• Job 38:41

  Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young cry for help to El and wander without food?

• Psalms 147:9

  who gives to the livestock its food, to the young of the raven that cry out.

• Proverbs 30:17

  The eye that mocks a father and despises obedience to a mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young of the eagle will eat it.

• Song of Songs 5:11

  His head is fine gold, pure gold; his curls are palm clusters, black as the raven.

• Isaiah 34:11

  And the pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, and the ibis and the raven will dwell in it; and he will stretch over it the line of formlessness and the stones of emptiness.