Bible Names

Arabia: meaning of the name

Arabia means “evening; desert; ravens.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Arabia in Hebrew and Greek

עֲרָב H6152

ʻĂrâb (ar-awb') — Arab (i.e. Arabia), a country East of Palestine

or עֲרַב; from H6150 (עָרַב) in the figurative sense of sterility;

Ἀραβία G688

Arabía — Arabia, a region of Asia

of Hebrew origin (H06152);

Places named Arabia

Arabia in Scripture

“Arabia” appears in 7 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Kings 10:15

    Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.

  • 2 Chronicles 9:14

    Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

  • Isaiah 21:13

    The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

  • Jeremiah 25:24

    And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,

  • Ezekiel 27:21

    Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.

  • Galatians 1:17

    Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

  • Galatians 4:25

    For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.