West
מַעֲרָבStrong’s H4628maarav (ma-a-rav)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maarav is the Hebrew word usually translated “west -ward”, “west” and “from west”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.”
Meaning
- Setting place, west, westward
How it's translated
- west -ward 3
- and to the west 2
- to the west 2
- and from west 2
- and from setting place 1
- from west 1
- and from setting place its 1
- from setting place 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 5
- Psalms 3
- Isaiah 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Daniel 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 7:28And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
- 1 Chronicles 12:15These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
- 1 Chronicles 26:16To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
- 1 Chronicles 26:18At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
- 1 Chronicles 26:30And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.
- 2 Chronicles 32:30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲרָב maarav · west
setting place, west, westward
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “west” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEST, noun
[Latin, a decline or fall, departure. In elements, it coincides with waste.]
- In strictness, that point of the horizon where the sun sets at the equinox, or any point in a direct line between the spectator or other object, and that point of the horizon; or west is the intersection of the prime vertical with the horizon, on that side where the sun sets. west is directly opposite to east, and one of the cardinal points.
- A country situated in the region towards the sun-setting, with respect to another.
All definitions and other forms of “west”
WEST, adjective
- Being in a line towards the point where the sun sets when in the equator; or in a looser sense, being in the region near the line of direction towards that point, either on the earth or in the heavens.“This shall be your west border” Numbers 34:6
- Coming or moving from the west or western region; as a west wind.
WEST, adverb
To the western region; at the westward; more westward; as, Ireland lies west of England.
WEST, verb intransitive
To pass to the west; to set, as the sun. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.