# H6157 עָרֹב

עָרֹב (ʻârôb), Strong’s H6157: a mosquito (from its swarming) KJV: divers sorts of flies, swarm.. Occurs 9 times.

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*ʻârôb* — a mosquito (from its swarming)

KJV: divers sorts of flies, swarm.

Derived from [עָרַב ʻârab](https://besorah.bible/word/H6148) (to braid, i.e. intermix)

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָרֹב 9 n.m. prob. swarm (mixture, from incessant, involved motion)

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 8:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=17) — Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your…
- [Exodus 8:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=18) — I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to…
- [Exodus 8:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=20) — The LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In…
- [Exodus 8:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=25) — Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh…
- [Exodus 8:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=27) — The LORD did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and…
- [Psalms 78:45](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/78?v=45) — He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
- [Psalms 105:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/105?v=31) — He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.