Jastrow: עַרְבּוּבְיָא

עַרְבּוּבְיָא, עִרְ׳, עִירְ׳ m. (preced.) mixture, confusion, tumult, motley crowd. Targ. Y. Deut. I, 22.—Sifré Deut. 20 (ref. to Deut. l. c.) בע׳ ילדים וכ׳ in a motley crowd, children pushing old men &c. Num. R. s. 12 (ref. to Ex. XXXV, 22) שהיו … ובאו אנשים ונשים בע׳ they pushed one another, and men and women came in a mixed crowd. Cant. R. to IV, 4 כל מלחמה … מלחמת עי׳ היא a battle in which more than sixty thousand are engaged is a tumultuous battle. Ḥull. 60ᵃ אם רצונו של הקב"ה בע׳ וכ׳ if the Lord wanted a motley growth, why did he say, ‘after its kind’ with regard to trees? Yalk. Esth. 1056 (ref. to נבוכה, Esth. III, 15) הפיל הקב"ה בכיה וע׳ וכ׳ the Lord cast weeping and confusion into Susan; a. e.—(Adv.) irregularly. Kil. V, 1 כרם שהוא נטוע ע׳ a vineyard which is planted irregularly. Lev. R. s. 36 (ref. to Ps. LXXX, 9) מה הגפן הזו אין נוטעין אותה ע׳ וכ׳ as vines are not planted at random, but in rows, so Israel &c.