(Brook of) Willows
עֲרָבָהStrong’s H6155aravah (a-ra-vah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aravah is the Hebrew word usually translated “poplars of”, “poplars” and “like poplars”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.”
Meaning
- Combined with na.chal (נַ֫חַל "Brook" H5158)
- Poplar, willowa tree characterised by dark wood
How it's translated
- and poplars of 1
- poplars of 1
- poplars 1
- the poplars 1
- like poplars 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Leviticus 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 40:22The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
- Psalms 137:2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
- Isaiah 15:7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
- Isaiah 44:4And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲרָבָה aravah · (Brook of) Willows
Combined with na.chal (נַ֫חַל "Brook" H5158)
עֲרָבָה aravah · willow
1) poplar, willow 1a) a tree characterised by dark wood
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “poplar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POP'LAR, noun
[Latin populus.]
A tree of the genus Populus, of several species, as the abele, the white poplar the black poplar the aspen-tree, etc. It is numbered among the aquatic trees.
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.