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Strong's #6149: `areb (pronounced aw-rabe')

a primitive root (identical with 6148 through the idea of close association); to be agreeable:--be pleasant(-ing), take pleasure in, be sweet.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ârêb

1) (Qal) to be pleasant, be sweet, be pleasing

1a) (TWOT) sweet, pleasant

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [identical with H614 idea of close association]; to be agreeable



Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

2 Kings 18:23: "Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver"
Psalms 104:34: "My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD."
Proverbs 3:24: "be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet."
Proverbs 13:19: "The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil."
Isaiah 36:8: "Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give"
Isaiah 38:14: "with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake"
Jeremiah 6:20: "your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet"
Jeremiah 31:26: "I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet"
Ezekiel 16:37: "thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with"
Ezekiel 27:9: "the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise."
Hosea 9:4: "wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all"
Malachi 3:4: "Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former"









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