Strong’s
H6157Noun, masculine9 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Exodus 8:21הֶעָרֹב
But if you will not let My people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even the ground where they stand will be full of flies.
- Psalm 78:45עָרֹב
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
עָרֹב 9 n.m. prob. swarm (mixture, from incessant, involved motion)
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.