Evening
עֶ֫רֶבStrong’s H6153erev (e-rev)
Appears in 125 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Erev is the Hebrew word usually translated “evening”, “evenings” and “from evening”. It appears in 125 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”
Meaning
- Evening, night, sunsetevening, sunset · night
How it's translated
- the evening 51
- in the evening 26
- evening 25
- the evenings 9
- from evening 4
- and in the evening 4
- and to the evening 3
- to evening 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 29
- Genesis 13
- Numbers 13
- Exodus 12
- Psalms 8
- Ezekiel 5
27 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 8:26In contextAnd the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
- Daniel 9:21In contextYea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
- Zechariah 14:7In contextBut it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
- Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
- Genesis 1:8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
- Genesis 1:13And the evening and the morning were the third day.
All 125 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עֶ֫רֶב erev · evening
1) evening, night, sunset 1a) evening, sunset 1b) night
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “evening” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
E'VENING, noun
[See Eve, Even.]
The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly the decline or fall of the day, or of the sun.
- “The evening and the morning were the first day” Genesis 1:5
- The decline or latter part of life.
- The decline of any thing; as the evening of glory.
All definitions and other forms of “evening”
E'VENING, adjective
Being at the close of day; as the evening sacrifice.
E'VENING SONG, noun
A hymn or song to be sung at evening
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.