Raven
עֹרֵבStrong’s H6158orev (o-rev)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Orev is the Hebrew word usually translated “raven”, “ravens” and “ravens of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.”
Meaning
- Raven
How it's translated
- raven 2
- the raven 1
- the ravens 1
- and the ravens 1
- for the raven 1
- a raven 1
- ravens of 1
- like raven 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
- Genesis 1
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:15Every raven after his kind;
- Deuteronomy 14:14And every raven after his kind,
- 1 Kings 17:4And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
- 1 Kings 17:6And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
- Job 38:41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
- Psalms 147:9He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Hebrew dictionary
עֹרֵב orev · raven
raven
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “raven” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAVEN, noun
ra'ven. [Heb. from its color. But this may be Latin corvus, rapio.]
All definitions and other forms of “raven”
RAVEN, verb transitive
rav'n.
- To devour with great eagerness; to eat with voracity.“Like a roaring lion, ravening the prey” Ezekiel 22:25
- To obtain by violence.
RAVEN, noun
rav'n.
- Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
- Rapine; rapacity.
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.