עָרַר
ʻârar · H6209 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to strip oneself
Action by which humans remove their clothes
ExamplesIsaiah 32:11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent daughters; Strip, undress, and put sackcloth on your waist,
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to raze, to level to the ground
Literally: to strip (a building); hence: causative action by which a construction is completely destroyed
ExamplesIsaiah 23:13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that did not exist; Assyria allocated it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.
Jeremiah 51:58 This is what the LORD of armies says: “The broad wall of Babylon will be completely demolished, And her high gates will be set on fire; So the peoples will labor for nothing, And the nations become exhausted only for fire.”
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
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- חוֹמָהwall 1
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
- Not stated: they 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַרְמוֹןcitadel 1
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- עָרָה ʻârâh · H6168 · to uncover, to make bare, to strip
- The target lexeme and עָרָה both genuinely describe overlapping senses of making bare or naked; עָרָה has a broader range (pour out, uncover, leave destitute), while the target lexeme is more focused, but the core sense of ‘making bare’ is a real same-language near-synonym relationship.
- פָּשַׁט pâshaṭ · H6584 · to cast (one's) skin, to shed (one's) skin, to strip off (skin)
- The target lexeme (‘make bare’) and פָּשַׁט (‘strip off, pull off’) both denote removing covering or clothing in similar contexts, and are plausible same-language near-synonyms.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Undress002003001017
- עָרַר carries the sense of making bare or stripping away, an act of exposing something that was covered.
- Impact002001001024
- The word also means to break down or raze, a forceful, destructive blow delivered against a structure.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6209. arar II. [עָרַר] verb strip oneself (|| form of ערה, II. עור); — Qal Imperative…
II. [עָרַר] verb strip oneself (|| form of ערה, II. עור); —
Qal Imperative עֹ֫רָה Isa 32:11 (|| מְּשֹׁ֫טָה; according to Ges§ 110k Hi De and others masculine singular with feminine plural subject; according to Ew§ 226 a Du Di and others feminine plural, shortened from ערנה etc.).
Po`. Perfect3plural אַרְמְנוֺתֶיהָ עוֺרְרוּ Isa 23:13 they have laid bare (the foundations of) her palaces, i.e. destroyed them; so
Pilpel Infinitive absolute +
Hithpalpel Imperfect3feminine singular תִּתְעַרְעַר עַרְעֵר Jer 51:58 be laid utterly bare, compare ערה
Pi`el 1.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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