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# עׇרְלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6190

**foreskin** — used 16 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

foreskin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6190/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרְלָה: n.f. foreskin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6190/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. foreskin;—ע׳ Gn 34:14; Je 9:24; cstr. עָרְלַת Ex 4:25; Dt 10:16, etc.; pl. הָעֲרָלוֹת (not עֳ׳) Jos 5:3 (Köii. 1, 158); cstr. עָרְלוֹת Je 4:4 + 2 times; עָרְלֹתֵיהֶם 1 S 18:27;—foreskin 1 S 18:25, 27; 2 S 3:14, cf. גִּבְעַת הָעֲרָלוֹת Jos 5:3 hill of the foreskins, near Gilgal; of circumcision, כרת ע׳ Ex 4:25 (J), בְּשַׂר ע׳ Gn 17:11 + 5 times P (v. II. מוּל), אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לוֹ ע׳ Gn 34:14 (P), i.e. one uncircumcised; cf. Je 9:24; fig. of fruit trees, עָרְלָתוֹ Lv 19:23 (P; v. \[עָרַל\]); fig. of heart, ע׳ לבב Dt 10:16; Je 4:4.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: foreskins (4); his foreskin (4); a foreskin (2).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 12:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.12.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.12.3/#tree)

וּבַיּ֖וֹם הַשְּׁמִינִ֑י יִמּ֖וֹל בְּשַׂ֥ר עָרְלָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and on the day (the) eighth it.will.be.circumcised the.flesh his.foreskin his

*JPS 1917:* And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

[Deuteronomy 10:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.10.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.10.16/#tree)

וּמַלְתֶּ֕ם אֵ֖ת עָרְלַ֣ת לְבַבְכֶ֑ם וְעָ֨רְפְּכֶ֔ם לֹ֥א תַקְשׁ֖וּ עֽוֹד׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.circumcise (et) the.foreskin your.heart your and neck your not you.will.stiffen again

*JPS 1917:* Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6190.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6190/): 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).