Mixture
עֵ֫רֶבStrong’s H6154erev (e-rev)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Erev is the Hebrew word usually translated “woof”, “foreigner” and “mixed company”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.”
Meaning
- Mixture, mixed people, mixed company
- Woofas mixed, interwoven · knitted material
- Mixture, mixed people, mixed company
How it's translated
- in the woof 4
- the woof 4
- foreigner 3
- a mixed company 1
- in woof 1
- person of mixed ancestry 1
- the arab 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
- Jeremiah 3
- Exodus 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:48Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
- Leviticus 13:49And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
- Leviticus 13:51And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
- Leviticus 13:52He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
- Leviticus 13:53And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
- Leviticus 13:56And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
Hebrew dictionary
עֵ֫רֶב erev · Arabia
mixture, mixed people, mixed company Another spelling of a.rav (עֲרָב "Arabia" H6152B)
עֵ֫רֶב erev · mixture
1) woof 1a) as mixed, interwoven 1b) knitted material
עֵ֫רֶב erev · racial-mix
mixture, mixed people, mixed company § 1) woof 1a) as mixed, interwoven 1b) knitted material
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mixture” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIX'TURE, noun
[Latin mixtura.]
The act of mixing, or state of being mixed. Compounds are made by the mixture of different substances.
- A mass or compound, consisting of different ingredients blended without order.
- The ingredient added and mixed.
- In pharmacy, a liquid medicine which receives into its composition not only extracts, salts and other substances dissolvable in water, but earths, powders and other substances not dissolvable.
- In chimistry, mixture differs from combination.
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.