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# עָרֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6189

**having foreskin** — used 35 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

having foreskin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6189/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרֵל: adj. having foreskin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6189/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. having foreskin, i.e. uncircumcised;—ע׳ Ex 12:48 + 5 times; cstr. עֶ֫רֶל Ez 44:9(×2); עֲרַל Ex 6:12, 30; f. עֲרֵלָה Je 6:10; pl. עֲרֵלִים Lv 19:23 + 20 times; cstr. עַרְלֵי Je 9:25 + 2 times;—uncircumcised person Ex 12:48; Jos 5:7 (P), Philistines Ju 14:3; 15:18; 1 S 14:6; 17:26, 36; 31:4; 2 S 1:20; 1 Ch 10:4; of other nations Is 52:1; Je 9:25, especially as slain Ez 28:10; 31:18; 32:19 + 9 times 32; in v 27 read מֵעוֹלָם so Hi and most (v. on meaning Toy 31:18); עָרֵל זָכֶר uncircumcised male Gn 17:14 (P); ע׳ בָּשָׂר Ez 44:7, 9 uncircumcised of flesh; fig. of fruit trees Lv 19:23 (cf. \[עָרַל\] supr.); ע׳ שְׂפָתַיִם fig. of incapacity to speak Ex 6:12, 30; of character, ע׳ לב Je 9:25; Ez 44:7, 9, cf. לִבָבָם הֶעָרֵל Lv 26:41 (H), עֲרֵלָה אָזְנָם Je 6:10 their ear is uncircumcised (unreceptive).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: uncircumcised (12); uncircumcised \[men\] (6); \[are\] uncircumcised (4).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 32:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.19/#tree)

מִמִּ֖י נָעָ֑מְתָּ רְדָ֥ה וְהָשְׁכְּבָ֖ה אֶת־עֲרֵלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* more than.whom? are.you.lovely go down and be laid with uncircumcised.\[men\]

*JPS 1917:* Whom dost thou pass in beauty? Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

[Ezekiel 32:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.28/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֗ה בְּת֧וֹךְ עֲרֵלִ֛ים תִּשָּׁבַ֥ר וְתִשְׁכַּ֖ב אֶת־חַלְלֵי־חָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* and you among uncircumcised.\[men\] you.will.be.broken and you.will.lie with \[those\].slain of.a.sword

*JPS 1917:* But thou, in the midst of the uncircumcised shalt thou be broken and lie, even with them that are slain by the sword.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6189.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6189/): 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).