עׇרְמָה
ʻormâh · H6195 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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cunning, prudence
State in which someone is able to manipulate difficult circumstances in such a way that the outcome is favorable to the planner; sometimes used in a positive sense, but also used in a negative sense
ExamplesExodus 21:14 “If, however, someone is enraged against his neighbor, so as to kill him in a cunning way, you are to take him even from My altar, to be put to death.
Joshua 9:4 but they on their part acted craftily and went and took provisions for a journey, and took worn-out sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins that were worn out, split open, and patched,
Proverbs 1:4 To give prudence to the naive, To the youth knowledge and discretion,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- בִּיןto understand, to discern 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- πανουργία panourgía · G3834 · craftiness, treachery
- Greek πανουργία emphasizes the negative connotation (trickery, sophistry) more explicitly than Hebrew עׇרְמָה, which covers a broader semantic range including neutral/positive prudence and wisdom alongside guile; the alignment reflects contexts where the craftiness/cunning sense predominates.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wise002001002029
- עׇרְמָה denotes prudence, guile, or subtlety, ranging in usage from the shrewd craftiness of the wicked to the commendable wisdom praised in Proverbs.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6195. ormah עָרְמָה noun feminine craftiness, prudence; — 1 ׳בְע craftily Exo 21:14 (E),…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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