maarav · west

What it means

maarav (מַעֲרָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “west”.

The side where the sun sets.

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. The direction where the sun sets; the west side.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• west ×13
• westward ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×5
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×3
• Daniel×1

• 1 Chronicles 7:28

  And their possession and their dwelling places: Bethel and its towns; and to the east, Naaran; and to the west, Gezer and its towns; and Shechem and its towns, as far as Ayyah and its towns;

• 1 Chronicles 12:15

  These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks; and they put to flight all those of the valleys, to the east and to the west.

• 1 Chronicles 26:16

  For Shuppim and for Hosah, the west, by the gate of Shallecheth on the causeway that goes up, guard alongside guard.

• 1 Chronicles 26:18

  At the Parbar on the west, four at the causeway and two at the Parbar.

• 1 Chronicles 26:30

  Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, capable men, one thousand seven hundred, were over the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the work of YHWH and for the service of the king.

• 2 Chronicles 32:30

  This same Hezekiah stopped up the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his work.

• 2 Chronicles 33:14

  After this he built an outer wall for the city of David, west of Gihon, in the brook, and to the entrance at the Fish Gate, and he surrounded the Ophel and raised it very high. He put commanders of forces in all the fortified cities of Judah.

• Psalms 75:6

  For not from the going out nor from the west, nor from the wilderness of the mountains does it come,

• Psalms 103:12

  As far as the east is from the west, so far he has removed from us our transgressions.

• Psalms 107:3

  and gathered them from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.

• Isaiah 43:5

  Do not fear, for I am with you; from the east I will bring your offspring, and from the west I will gather you.

• Isaiah 45:6

  so that they may know from the rising of the sun and from its west that there is nothing besides me; I am YHWH, and there is no other;

• Isaiah 59:19

  And they will fear from the west the name of YHWH, and from the rising of the sun his glory; for he will come like a narrow river that the breath of YHWH drives along.

• Daniel 8:5

  And I was considering, and look, a male goat was coming from the west over the face of all the earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a conspicuous horn between its eyes.