aravi · Arab

What it means

aravi (עֲרָבִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Arab”.

An inhabitant of Arabia, the desert lands south and east of Israel.

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 dweller of the Arabian desert.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Arabs ×5
• Arab ×4

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1

• 2 Chronicles 17:11

  From the Philistines some were bringing to Jehoshaphat tribute and silver as a load; also the Arabs were bringing him sheep and goats: rams, seven thousand and seven hundred, and male goats, seven thousand and seven hundred.

• 2 Chronicles 21:16

  YHWH stirred up against Joram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who are beside the Cushites.

• 2 Chronicles 22:1

  The inhabitants of Jerusalem made king in his place Ahaziah, his youngest son, for the band that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed all the older ones. So Ahaziah son of Joram, king of Judah, reigned.

• 2 Chronicles 26:7

  Elohim helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.

• Nehemiah 2:19

  But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, and they mocked us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

• Nehemiah 4:7

  It happened that when Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward, that the breaches had begun to be closed, they burned with anger greatly;

• Nehemiah 6:1

  It happened that when it was heard by Sanballat and Tobiah, and by Geshem the Arab and by the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and no breach was left in it —though up to that time I had not set up doors in the gates—

• Isaiah 13:20

  It will never be inhabited, nor be dwelt in from generation to generation; nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, nor shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

• Jeremiah 3:2

  Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not been lain with? By the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the wilderness, and you defiled the land with your prostitutions and with your evil.