1. Oreb (proper noun) — The proper name Oreb, referring to one of two Midianite princes captured and executed by the Ephraimites during Gideon's campaign (Judg 7:25, 8:3), and also to the rock where he was slain, subsequently named after him (Judg 7:25, Isa 10:26). Multilingual evidence: eng 'Oreb/like Oreb,' spa 'Orev/Oreb/como Orev,' hin 'oreb ko/oreb kii tarah,' arb 'uwriyb/ka-uwrayba,' kor 'oret/oret cheoreom,' swa 'Orebu/kama Orebu.' The prepositional prefix form (ke- + Oreb, 'like Oreb') is a syntactic comparison, not a different sense of the name. 7×
AR["عُورِيب","عُورِيبَ","كَعُورَيبَ"]·ben["ওরেব","ওরেবকে","ওরেবের","ওরেবের-মতো"]·DE["Oreb","[עורב]","wie-Orev"]·EN["Oreb","like-Orev"]·FR["Oreb","[עורב]","comme-soir"]·heb["כ-עורב","עורב"]·HI["ओरेब","ओरेब-का","ओरेब-की-तरह","ओरेब-के","ओरेब-को"]·ID["Oreb","seperti-Oreb"]·IT["Oreb","[עורב]","come-sera"]·jav["Oreb","Orèb","Oréb","kados-Oréb"]·KO["오렛","오렛-처럼","오렛을","오렛의"]·PT["'Orev","como-Orebe"]·RU["Орева","как-Орева"]·ES["Oreb","Orev","como-Orev"]·SW["Orebu","kama-Orebu","wa-Orebu"]·TR["Orev","Orev'in","Orev-gibi","Orevi"]·urd["جیسے-غراب","عوریب","عوریب-کا","عوریب-کی","عوریب-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† עֹרֵב n.m. Lv 11:15 raven;—ע׳ Is 34:11; הָע׳ Gn 8:7 Lv 11:15; Dt 14:14; Jb 38:41; כָּעוֹרֵב Ct 5:11 black as the raven; בְּנֵי עֹרֵב ψ 147:9, young ravens; pl. abs. הָעֹרְבִים 1 K 17:4, 6; cstr. עֹרְבֵי־נַחַל Pr 30:17.