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Strong's #6159: `Oreb (pronounced o-rabe')

or mOwreb {o-rabe'}; the same as 6158; Oreb, the name of a Midianite and of the cliff near the Jordan:--Oreb.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛ôrêb

Oreb = "raven"

1) one of the chieftains of the Midianite army defeated by Gideon (noun proper masculine)

2) a rock east of the Jordan where Oreb and part of his army fell to the Ephraimites (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition



Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

Judges 7:25: "princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb"
Judges 7:25: "and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew"
Judges 7:25: "Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb,"
Judges 7:25: "and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon"
Judges 8:3: "the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do"
Psalms 83:11: "Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:"
Isaiah 10:26: "him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up"









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