pleasing unto him ! 3 fs. תֶּעֱרַב לְ Pr 13:19 (of realized wish); 3 mpl. לֹא יֶעֶרְבֹו לֹו Ho 9:4 (of sacrifice; but Kue Che We GASm Now read יַעַרְכוּ ).

• עָרֵב S 6156 TWOT 1687a GK 6853 adj. sweet, pleasant ;— לֶחֶם שָׁ˜קֶר ע׳ לָאִישׁ Pr 20:1 7; קֹולֵךְ ע׳ Ct 2:1 4.

IV.

ערב TWOT 1685, 1688, 1690 ( ^√ of foll.; poss. be arid; Thes cp. Ethiopic ˜˜˜ ( ˓abra ) be arid, sterile , so Baentsch Die Wüste (1883), 17 , but dub. ; Syriac ܥܳܪܳܒܳܐ ( ˓orobo ) = BH ; Arabic العَرَبَة ( ˒l-˓arabat ) n.pr. of depression S. of Dead Sea ) .

• עֲרַב S 6151, 6152 TWOT 1688a, 2927 GK 6846, 6851, 6852 n. [ m. ] desert-plateau, steppe ( cf. Che Intr. Is. 129 ) ;— בַּעֲרָ˜ב בַּעֲרַב ( si vera l. ) Is 21:13 ^(×2) in the steppe (of what we know as N. Arabia); but in v b Vrss Lo Che Gu Kau al. בָּעֶרֶב in the evening .

• עֲרָבִי S 6163 TWOT 1688b GK 6862 n. gent. of foregoing, steppe-dweller ;— Is 13:20 ; כַּעֲרֶבִי בַּמִּדְבָּר˜ Je 3: 2.

• עֲרָב S 6152 TWOT 1688c GK 6846 n.pr. gent. coll. steppe-dwellers of N. Arabia

( Wetzst Zvölkerpsych . vii. 463 f. ; extended later (so Herod. ^ii.11 etc.) to whole peninsula, cf. Arabic العَرَبُ ( ˒l-˓arabu ) the Arabs , Bedúwy the people , Doughty Arab. Deserta , i. ²²⁴; Sab. ערבן , ערב , אערב CIS iv. p. 123 , Assyrian Aribu, Arubu, Arabi , people in
N. Arabia, Dl ^Pa 295 f. 304 f. COT Je 25:2 4; also Urbi Dl ^{Pa 305 f.} of nomad ‘Arab’ tribes ) ;— מַלְכֵי ע׳ הַשֹּׁכְנִים בַּמִּדְבָּר Je 25:24 ( v. I . עֵרֶב ), 2 Ch 9:14 + || 1 K 10:15 ( v. id. ); ע׳ also Ez 27:2 + 30:5 ( v. id. ); v. especially Nö ^Arabia in Ency. Bib.

Kue A. Kuenen. GASm George Adam Smith. Che T. K. Cheyene, Introduction to Isaiah. Gu H. Guthe, rarely Stan. Guyard. Wetzst J. G. Wetzstein

Zvölkerpsych Z. für Völkerpsychologie . Herod. Herodotus.

Doughty C. M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia deserta. CIS Corpus Inscript. Semiticarum.

Ency. Bib. EB(i), q.v. .