Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NLT

NLT

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H6153 - ʿereḇ

Aa
עֶרֶב
Transliteration
ʿereḇ
Pronunciation
eh'-reb
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1689a

Strong’s Definitions

עֶרֶב ʻereb, eh'-reb; from H6150; dusk:— day, even(-ing, tide), night.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 137x

The KJV translates Strong's H6153 in the following manner: even (72x), evening (47x), night (4x), mingled (2x), people (2x), eventide (2x), eveningtide (with H6256) (2x), Arabia (1x), days (1x), even (with H996) (1x), evening (with H3117) (1x), evening (with H6256) (1x), eventide (with H6256) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 137x
The KJV translates Strong's H6153 in the following manner: even (72x), evening (47x), night (4x), mingled (2x), people (2x), eventide (2x), eveningtide (with H6256) (2x), Arabia (1x), days (1x), even (with H996) (1x), evening (with H3117) (1x), evening (with H6256) (1x), eventide (with H6256) (1x).

  1. evening, night, sunset

    1. evening, sunset

    2. night

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶרֶב ʻereb, eh'-reb; from H6150; dusk:— day, even(-ing, tide), night.
STRONGS H6153: Abbreviations
עֶ֫רֶב 131 noun [masculine] 1 Samuel 20:5 strike out הַשְּׁלִישִׁית see We Dr and others] (sun)set, evening; — absolute ע׳ 2 Kings 2:16 +, עָ֑רֶב Exodus 12:18 +; construct עֶרֶב Proverbs 7:9; dual עַרְבַּיִם Exodus 30:8 + 4 times, בָּ֑יִם - Exodus 12:16 + 5 times (all P); —
1.
a. evening, originally sunset, and hence perhaps לְעֵת ע׳ at the time of sunset Genesis 8:11 (J), Genesis 24:11 (J; || לְעֵת צֵאת הַשֹּׁאֲבֹת), 2 Samuel 11:2; Isaiah 17:14 and (of the day of י׳) Zechariah 14:7, עֵת הָע׳ Joshua 8:29 (JE) †; usually ע׳ alone = time of sunset, evening: בָּע׳ in the evening Genesis 19:1 (J), Genesis 29:23 (E), Exodus 12:18 (P), Deuteronomy 16:6 (+ שֶׁמֶשׁ כְּבוֺא), 1 Kings 22:35 (compare || 2 Chronicles 18:34 where + לְעֵת בּוֺא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ) + 20 times + בָּע(ֿ)בָּע׳ 2 Chronicles 13:11 (twice in verse) = every evening; לָע׳ at evening only late: † 1 Chronicles 16:40; 1 Chronicles 23:30; 2 Chronicles 2:3; Ezra 3:3; Psalm 59:7; Psalm 59:15; Psalm 90:6; Ecclesiastes 11:6 †; לִפְנוֺת ע׳ at the turn of evening † Genesis 24:63 (J), Deuteronomy 23:12; ע׳ as adverb accusative Exodus 16:6 (P), Psalm 55:18; as marking duration of impurity, in phrase עַדהָֿע׳ Leviticus 11:24 + 30 times P + Leviticus 22:6 (H); of Day of Atonement מֵע׳ עַדעֿ׳ Leviticus 23:32 (P).
b. dual in phrase (only P) בֵּין הָעַרְבַּיִם between the two evenings, i.e. probably between sunset and dark (see Thes [various views fully given]; otherwise DiExodus 12:6; on form as possibly only expanded plural see Ges§ 88 c), † Exodus 12:6; Exodus 16:12; Exodus 29:39, 41; Exodus 30:8; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:3, 5, 11; Numbers 28:4, 8 †.
c. other phrases are: צִלְלֵי ע׳ Jeremiah 6:4 (distinguished from צָהֳרָ֑יִם and לָ֑יְלָה Jeremiah 6:5), מִנְחַה (הָ)ע׳ 2 Kings 16:15; Ezra 9:4, 5; Psalm 141:2; Daniel 9:21; זְאֵבֵי ע׳ see I. זְאֵב; for all combinations with בֹּקֶר morning, see ב׳ 1d, e.
2. (late poetry) = night, עָ֑רֶב Job 7:4; compare בְּנֶשֶׁף בְּעֶרֶב יוֺם Proverbs 7:9 (|| בְּאִישׁוֺן לַיְלָה וִאֲפֵלָה).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:11; 19:1; 24:11; 24:63; 29:23

Exodus

12:6; 12:6; 12:16; 12:18; 12:18; 16:6; 16:12; 29:39; 29:41; 30:8; 30:8

Leviticus

11:24; 22:6; 23:5; 23:32

Numbers

9:3; 9:5; 9:11; 28:4; 28:8

Deuteronomy

16:6; 23:12

Joshua

8:29

1 Samuel

20:5

2 Samuel

11:2

1 Kings

22:35

2 Kings

2:16; 16:15

1 Chronicles

16:40; 23:30

2 Chronicles

2:3; 13:11; 18:34

Ezra

3:3; 9:4; 9:5

Job

7:4

Psalms

55:18; 59:7; 59:15; 90:6; 141:2

Proverbs

7:9; 7:9

Ecclesiastes

11:6

Isaiah

17:14

Jeremiah

6:4; 6:5

Daniel

9:21

Zechariah

14:7

H6153

Read the Full Entry

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6153 matches the Hebrew עֶרֶב (ʿereḇ),
which occurs 134 times in 125 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Lev 22:6–Job 4:20)

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:6 - The man who is defiled in any of these ways will remain unclean until evening. He may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has bathed himself in water.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - “The LORD’s Passover begins at sundown on the fourteenth day of the first month.[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:32 - This will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and on that day you must deny yourselves. This day of rest will begin at sundown on the ninth day of the month and extend until sundown on the tenth day.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3 - This is the lampstand that stands in the Tabernacle, in front of the inner curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant.[fn] Aaron must keep the lamps burning in the LORD’s presence all night. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:3 - at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.[fn] Be sure to follow all my decrees and regulations concerning this celebration.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - in the wilderness of Sinai as twilight fell on the fourteenth day of the month. And they celebrated the festival there, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:11 - They must offer the Passover sacrifice one month later, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month.[fn] They must eat the Passover lamb at that time with bitter salad greens and bread made without yeast.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15 - On the day the Tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered it.[fn] But from evening until morning the cloud over the Tabernacle looked like a pillar of fire.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:21 - Sometimes the cloud stayed only overnight and lifted the next morning. But day or night, when the cloud lifted, the people broke camp and moved on.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7 - “Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water. Afterward he may return to the camp, though he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:8 - The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, will remain unclean until evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10 - The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent law for the people of Israel and any foreigners who live among them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 - On the third and seventh days the person who is ceremonially clean must sprinkle the water on those who are defiled. Then on the seventh day the people being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe themselves, and that evening they will be cleansed of their defilement.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21 - This is a permanent law for the people. Those who sprinkle the water of purification must afterward wash their clothes, and anyone who then touches the water used for purification will remain defiled until evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:22 - Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be ceremonially unclean until evening.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:4 - Sacrifice one lamb in the morning and the other in the evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:8 - Offer the second lamb in the evening with the same grain offering and liquid offering. It, too, is a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:4 - Let no yeast be found in any house throughout your land for those seven days. And when you sacrifice the Passover lamb on the evening of the first day, do not let any of the meat remain until the next morning.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - You must offer it only at the designated place of worship—the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to be honored. Sacrifice it there in the evening as the sun goes down on the anniversary of your exodus from Egypt.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:11 - Toward evening he must bathe himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:67

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:67 - In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were night!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ For you will be terrified by the awful horrors you see around you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - While the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6 - Joshua and the elders of Israel tore their clothing in dismay, threw dust on their heads, and bowed face down to the ground before the Ark of the LORD until evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - Joshua impaled the king of Ai on a sharpened pole and left him there until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body, as Joshua commanded, and threw it in front of the town gate. They piled a great heap of stones over him that can still be seen today.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:26 - Then Joshua killed each of the five kings and impaled them on five sharpened poles, where they hung until evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - That evening an old man came home from his work in the fields. He was from the hill country of Ephraim, but he was living in Gibeah, where the people were from the tribe of Benjamin.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - For they had gone up to Bethel and wept in the presence of the LORD until evening. They had asked the LORD, “Should we fight against our relatives from Benjamin again?”
And the LORD had said, “Go out and fight against them.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26 - Then all the Israelites went up to Bethel and wept in the presence of the LORD and fasted until evening. They also brought burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2 - Now the people went to Bethel and sat in the presence of God until evening, weeping loudly and bitterly.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:17 - So Ruth gathered barley there all day, and when she beat out the grain that evening, it filled an entire basket.[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:24 - Now the men of Israel were pressed to exhaustion that day, because Saul had placed them under an oath, saying, “Let a curse fall on anyone who eats before evening—before I have full revenge on my enemies.” So no one ate anything all day,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:5 - David replied, “Tomorrow we celebrate the new moon festival. I’ve always eaten with the king on this occasion, but tomorrow I’ll hide in the field and stay there until the evening of the third day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17 - David and his men rushed in among them and slaughtered them throughout that night and the entire next day until evening. None of the Amalekites escaped except 400 young men who fled on camels.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:12 - They mourned and wept and fasted all day for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the LORD’s army and the nation of Israel, because they had died by the sword that day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - Late one afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - Then David invited him to dinner and got him drunk. But even then he couldn’t get Uriah to go home to his wife. Again he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:6 - The ravens brought him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he drank from the brook.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - The battle raged all that day, and the king remained propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. The blood from his wound ran down to the floor of his chariot, and as evening arrived he died.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15 - He told Uriah the priest, “Use the new altar[fn] for the morning sacrifices of burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, and the burnt offerings of all the people, as well as their grain offerings and liquid offerings. Sprinkle the blood from all the burnt offerings and sacrifices on the new altar. The bronze altar will be for my personal use only.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:40 - They sacrificed the regular burnt offerings to the LORD each morning and evening on the altar set aside for that purpose, obeying everything written in the Law of the LORD, as he had commanded Israel.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:30 - And each morning and evening they stood before the LORD to sing songs of thanks and praise to him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - I am about to build a Temple to honor the name of the LORD my God. It will be a place set apart to burn fragrant incense before him, to display the special sacrificial bread, and to sacrifice burnt offerings each morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, at new moon celebrations, and at the other appointed festivals of the LORD our God. He has commanded Israel to do these things forever.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - They present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD every morning and evening. They place the Bread of the Presence on the holy table, and they light the gold lampstand every evening. We are following the instructions of the LORD our God, but you have abandoned him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:34 - The battle raged all that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Arameans. In the evening, just as the sun was setting, he died.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:3 - The king also made a personal contribution of animals for the daily morning and evening burnt offerings, the weekly Sabbath festivals, the monthly new moon festivals, and the annual festivals as prescribed in the Law of the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:3 - Even though the people were afraid of the local residents, they rebuilt the altar at its old site. Then they began to sacrifice burnt offerings on the altar to the LORD each morning and evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:4 - Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel came and sat with me because of this outrage committed by the returned exiles. And I sat there utterly appalled until the time of the evening sacrifice.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:5 - At the time of the sacrifice, I stood up from where I had sat in mourning with my clothes torn. I fell to my knees and lifted my hands to the LORD my God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - That evening she was taken to the king’s private rooms, and the next morning she was brought to the second harem,[fn] where the king’s wives lived. There she would be under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would never go to the king again unless he had especially enjoyed her and requested her by name.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:20 - They are alive in the morning but dead by evening,
gone forever without a trace.

Search Results Continued...

1. LOAD PAGE 1 Gen 1:5–Lev 17:15

2. Currently on page 2/3 (Lev 22:6–Job 4:20) Lev 22:6–Job 4:20

3. LOAD PAGE 3 Job 7:4–Zec 14:7

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NLT
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
NLT
Daily Devotionals

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan