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Hebrew verb · H6168

עָרָה

arahaw-raw'

to uncover

15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻârâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6168is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 15
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6168

to be (causatively, make) bare; hence, to empty, pour out, demolish

The King James renders it: leave destitute, discover, empty, make naked, pour (out), rase, spread self, uncover.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

arah is rendered "to uncover". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:20And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.
  • The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.

The first use

And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

Genesis 24:20וַתְּעַ֤ר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's fifteen uses are in Psalms.

The other 31 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • he has made naked2
  • he will lay bare2
  • lay bare2
  • and she emptied1
  • and spreading himself1
  • and you may strip yourself naked1
  • he poured out1
  • it uncovered1
  • it will be poured out1
  • so they may pour out1
  • you have laid bare1
  • you lay bare1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

עָרָבarab(Brook of) WillowsUses5
עָרָהarahbulrushUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 15, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

15 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הֶֽעֱרָ֔ה1
  • הֶעֱרָ֖ה1
  • הֶעֱרָ֤ה1
  • וִיעָ֙רוּ֙1
  • וּ֝מִתְעָרֶ֗ה1
  • וַתְּעַ֤ר1
  • וְתִתְעָרִֽי׃ ס1
  • יֵ֨עָרֶ֥ה1
  • יְעָרֶֽה׃ ס1
  • עֵרָ֖ה1
  • עֵרָֽה׃1
  • עָ֑רוּ1

and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVhp3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpp3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HVpv2mp
  • HC/Vpu3mp1HC/Vpu3mp
  • Hc/Vpw3fs1Hc/Vpw3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vtrmsa
  • HC/Vtu2fs1HC/Vtu2fs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HVpcc
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpj2ms

Genesis

one use
  • And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

    Genesis 24:20

    • וַתְּעַ֤רvatearHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she emptied

Leviticus

two uses
  • If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.

    Leviticus 20:18

    • הֶֽעֱרָ֔הheerahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has made naked
  • You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

    Leviticus 20:19

    • הֶעֱרָ֖הheerahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has made naked

2 Chronicles

one use
  • Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.

    2 Chronicles 24:11

    • וִיעָ֙רוּ֙viaruHC/Vpu3mptagged: so they may pour out

Psalms

four uses
  • I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

    Psalms 37:35

    • וּ֝מִתְעָרֶ֗הumitarehconjunction (“and”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: and spreading himself
  • Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

    Psalms 137:7

    • עָ֤רוּ׀ʾaruverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: lay bare
    • עָ֑רוּʾaruverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: lay bare
  • But my eyes are fixed on You, O GOD the Lord. In You I seek refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.

    Psalms 141:8

    • תְּעַ֥רtearverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you lay bare

Isaiah

four uses
  • the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

    Isaiah 3:17

    • יְעָרֶֽה׃ סyearehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will lay bare
  • Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.

    Isaiah 22:6

    • עֵרָ֖הʾerahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it uncovered
  • until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

    Isaiah 32:15

    • יֵ֨עָרֶ֥הyearehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be poured out
  • Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

    Isaiah 53:12

    • הֶעֱרָ֤הheerahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he poured out

Lamentations

one use
  • So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

    Lamentations 4:21

    • וְתִתְעָרִֽי׃ סvetitariHC/Vtu2fstagged: and you may strip yourself naked

Habakkuk

one use
  • You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah

    Habakkuk 3:13

    • עָר֛וֹתarotverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: you have laid bare

Zephaniah

one use
  • Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.

    Zephaniah 2:14

    • עֵרָֽה׃ʾerahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will lay bare

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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