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# עָרוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6175

**crafty** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

crafty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6175/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרוּם: adj. crafty, shrewd, sensible [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6175/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. crafty, shrewd, sensible;— crafty, ע׳ as pred., of serpent Gn 3:1; pl. as subst. מַחְשְׁבוֹת עֲרוּמִים Jb 5:12, לְשׁוֹן ע׳ 15:5. in Pr, in good sense (opp. אֱוִיל, כְּסִיל, פֶּתִי); as attrib. אָדָם עָרוּם Pr 12:23 a shrewd or sensible man; ע׳ as subst. = id., v 16; 13:16, so חָכְמַת ע׳ 14:8; = prudent man 14:15; 22:3; 27:12; pl. עֲרוּמִים 14:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a sensible \[person\] (3); of crafty \[people\] (2); \[is\] sensible (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 14:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.18/#tree)

נָחֲל֣וּ פְתָאיִ֣ם אִוֶּ֑לֶת וַֽ֝עֲרוּמִ֗ים יַכְתִּ֥רוּ דָֽעַת׃

*Word for word:* they.inherit naive.people foolishness and sensible.\[people\] they.surround knowledge

*JPS 1917:* The thoughtless come into possession of folly; but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

[Proverbs 27:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.12/#tree)

עָר֤וּם רָאָ֣ה רָעָ֣ה נִסְתָּ֑ר פְּ֝תָאיִ֗ם עָבְר֥וּ נֶעֱנָֽשׁוּ׃

*Word for word:* a.sensible.\[person\] he.sees evil he.hides.himself naive.people they.pass.on they.are.punished

*JPS 1917:* A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the thoughtless pass on, and are punished.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6175.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6175/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).