Definition

the web (or transverse threads of cloth); also a mixture, (or mongrel race)

Etymology

or עֶרֶב; (1 Kings 10:15), (with the article [prefix), from H6148 (עָרַב);

Where the KJV renders it

• Arabia
• mingled people
• mixed (multitude)
• woof

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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