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Bible Dictionary

Jareb

(adversary) is to be explained either as the proper name of a country or person, as a noun in apposition, or as a verb from a root, rub, “to contend plead.” All these senses are represented in the Au…

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

” All these senses are represented in the Authorized Version and the marginal readings, (Hosea 5:13; 10:6) and the east preferable has been inserted in the text. Jareb is most probably the name of some city of Assyria or another name of the country itself.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

JA'REB (an adversary). The marginal reading would indicate that it was the name of a place, but that is forbidden by the form of the original word. Hos 5:13; Neh 10:6. e.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

a revenger

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