Oreb

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a raven
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


("raven".) Prince of Midian defeated by Gideon (Jdg_7:25; Jdg_8:3). His name, as Zeeb ("wolf"), indicates a fierce and ravenous warrior. Slain upon the rock Oreb in the pursuit after the battle, by the men of Ephraim, who intercepted and slew with great slaughter the Midianites after the Jordan fords. This second part of the victory is celebrated Psa_83:11-14; Isa_10:26, "according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb." Oreb and Zeeb were the prince generals of Midian. Zebah and Zalmunna were their kings (Jdg_8:5; Jdg_8:10; Jdg_8:12; Jdg_8:18; Jdg_8:21). "Make them like a wheel, as the stubble before the wind, as the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountain on fire." The Arabic imprecation illustrates this, "may you be whirled as the 'akkub before the wind, until you are caught in the thorns or plunged in the sea!" Thomson describes the wild artichoke when dry thus swept before the wind. The chaff from the exposed threshing floor, and the rapidly sweeping flame on a wooded hill in hot countries, are equally expressive images.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


O'reb. (raven). One of the chieftains of the Midianite host, which invaded Israel, and was defeated and driven back by Gideon. Jdg_7:25. (B.C. 1362). Isaiah, Isa_10:26, refers to the magnitude of this disaster. Compare Psa_83:1.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


In 2 Esdras 2:33 the King James Version for MT. HOREB (which see; so the Revised Version (British and American)).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


O?reb and Ze?eb, the remarkable names (raven and wolf) of two emirs of the Midianites, who were made prisoners by the Ephraimites is attempting to recross the Jordan after the victory of Gideon. They were put to death by the captors, and their heads carried as a trophy to the conqueror, who was then on the other side the Jordan (Jdg_7:25; Jdg_8:3). The first of these princes met his death near a rock, which thenceforth bore his name (Isa_10:26); the other seems to have at first sought refuge in one of those excavations in which wines were preserved, and which was thenceforth called the winepress of Zeeb (Jdg_7:25).




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Oreb
(Heb. Oreb', עוֹרֵב[Jdg_7:25; Isa_10:26, עֹרֵב, a raven; Sept. ᾿Ωρήβ v. r. Ο᾿ρήβ; Josephus, ᾿Ωρηβός, Ant. v. 6, 5), the name of a sheik of the Midianites, who, with Zeeb (“the wolf”), invaded Israel and was defeated and driven back by Gideon. B.C. cir. 1362. SEE GIDEON. The title given to them ( שָׂרַים, A. V. “princes”) distinguishes them from Zebah and Zalmunna, the other two chieftains, who are called “kings” (מלכים), and were evidently superior in rank to Oreb and Zeeb. “They were killed, not by Gideon himnself, or the people under his immediate conduct, but by the men of Ephraim, who rose this entreaty and intercepted the flying horde at the fords of the Jordan. This was the second act of that great tragedy. ''It is but slightly touched upon in the narrative of Judges, but the terms in which Isaiah refers to it (Isa_10:26) are such as to imply that it was a truly awful slaughter. He places it in the same rank with the two most tremendous disasters recorded in the whole of the history of Israel — the destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea, and of the army of Sennacherib. Nor is Isaiah alone among the poets of Israel in his reference to this great event. While it is the terrific slaughter of the Midianites which points his allusion, their discomfiture and flight are prominent in that of the author of Psalms 83. In imagery both obvious and vivid to every native of the gusty hills and plains of Palestine, though to us comparatively unintelligible, the Psalmist describes them as driven over the uplands of Gilead like the clouds of chaff blown from the threshing-floors; chased away like the spherical masses of dry weeds which course over the plains of Esdraelon and Philistia — flying with the dreadful hurry and confusion of the flames that rush and leap from tree to tree and, hill to hill when the wooded mountains: of a tropical country are by chance ignited (Psa_83:13-14). The slaughter was concentrated around the rock at which Oreb fell, and which was long known by his name (Jdg_7:25; Isa_10:26). This spot appears to have been in the valley of the Jordan, from whence the heads of the two chiefs were brought to Gideon to encourage him to furtler pursuit after the fugitive Zebah and Zalmunna.” See below.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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