The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . placeparallel to the former text (1 Kings x:i5), insteadof Arab we find Ereb, rendered in Jer. xxv :20,24, mingled people, but which Gesenius, fol-lowing the Chaldee, understands to mean foreignallies. In all the passages where the word Araboccurs it designates only a small portion of theterritory known to us as Arabia. Thus, in theaccount given by Ezekiel (xxvii :2i) of the Ara-bian tri
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . placeparallel to the former text (1 Kings x:i5), insteadof Arab we find Ereb, rendered in Jer. xxv :20,24, mingled people, but which Gesenius, fol-lowing the Chaldee, understands to mean foreignallies. In all the passages where the word Araboccurs it designates only a small portion of theterritory known to us as Arabia. Thus, in theaccount given by Ezekiel (xxvii :2i) of the Ara-bian tribes that traded with Tyre, mention isspecially made of Arab (comp. Jer. ). In2 Chron. xxi:i6; xxii:i; xxvi:7; Neh. iv 7, wefind the Arabians classed with the Philistines, theEthiopians (i. e., the Asiatic Cushites, of whomthey are said to have been neighbors), the Mehu-nims, the Ammonites, and Ashdodites. At whatperiod this name Arab was extended to the wholeregion it is impossible to ascertain. From it theGreeks formed the word Apafila, which occurstwice in the New Testament; in :17, in ref-erence, probably, to the tract adjacent to Damas-cene Syria, and in Gal. iv 125, in reference to the. Arabians, Showing Dress. peninsula of Mount Sinai. Among the strangersassembled at Jerusalem at the Pentecost therewere Arabs (Acts ii:ii), the singular beingArab. As to the etymology of the name Arab, variousopinions have been expressed. The most obvious etymology of the name isfrom Arabah, a steppe, a desert, plain or wilder-ness. That was. in point of fact, the name givenby the ancient Hebrews to the tract of countryextending northward from Elath, on the ArabianGulf to the Dead Sea (Deut. i:i ; ii:8), and evenas far as the Lake of Tiberias (Josh, xii:,-?). Itwas called Ha-Arabah, commonly rendered in ourversion by the plain (hence the Dead Sea wasstyled the sea of the Arabah, Josh. iii:i6) ; and it included the plains (Arboth) of Jericho andMoab (Josh. v:io; Deut. xxxivu, 8)
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