Yareb: "let him contend," the name of an Assyrian king Original Word: יָרֵב
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: Yareb
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-rabe')
Short Definition: Jareb
Word Origin
from rib
Definition
"let him contend," the name of an Assyr. king
NASB Translation
Jareb (2).
יָרֵב noun masculine, eipthet of Assyrian king (properly, si vera lectio, verb = let him contend, or (one who) contends); — only ׳מֶלֶךְ י Hosea 5:18; Hosea 10:6, i.e. Tiglath-Pileser III; WMMZAW xvii (1897), 335 proposes מַלְכִּי רַב (י- old noun ending) = Assyrian šarru rabbu; CheExpos., Nov. 1807, 864 מלך רב; CheEncy. Bib. JAREB conjecture מלך ערבי, Arabian king; compare, further, Comm., SchrCOT, on the passage JA SelbieHastings DB, JAREB and references
Jareb From riyb; he will contend; Jareb, a symbolical name for Assyria -- Jareb. Compare Yariyb. see HEBREW riyb see HEBREW Yariyb
יָרֵ֑ב ירב yā·rêḇ yārêḇ yaRev
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