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# עָרַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6209

**strip oneself** — used 4 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

strip oneself [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6209/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרַר: vb. strip oneself Pōʿ. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6209/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. strip oneself (‖ form of ערה, II. עור);— Imv. עֹ֫רָה Is 32:11 (‖ פְּשֹׁ֫טָה; according to Ges§ 110 k Hi De al. ms. with fpl. subj.; according to Ew§ 226 a Du Di al. fpl., shortened from ערנה etc.). Pōʿ. Pf. 3 pl. עוֹרְרוּ אַרְמְנוֹתֶיהָ Is 23:13 they have laid bare (the foundations of) her palaces, i.e. destroyed them; so Inf. abs. + Impf. 3 fs. עַרְעֵר תִּתְעַרְעַר Je 51:58 be laid utterly bare, cf. ערה 1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: it will be laid bare (1); lay yourself bare (1); they laid bare (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 32:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.11/#tree)

חִרְדוּ֙ שַֽׁאֲנַנּ֔וֹת רְגָ֖זָה בֹּֽטְח֑וֹת פְּשֹׁ֣טָֽה וְעֹ֔רָה וַחֲג֖וֹרָה עַל־חֲלָצָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* tremble O.carefree.\[women\] be.agitated O.confident.\[women\] strip.off and lay.yourself.bare and gird on loins

*JPS 1917:* Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye confident ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins,

[Isaiah 23:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.13/#tree)

הֵ֣ן ׀ אֶ֣רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּ֗ים זֶ֤ה הָעָם֙ לֹ֣א הָיָ֔ה אַשּׁ֖וּר יְסָדָ֣הּ לְצִיִּ֑ים הֵקִ֣ימוּ בַחוּנָ֗יו עֹרְרוּ֙ אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ שָׂמָ֖הּ לְמַפֵּלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* there! the.land of.\[the\].Chaldeans this \[is\].the people \[which\].not it.was Assyria it allocated.it to desert-dwellers they.raised.up siege-towers its they.laid.bare palaces its it made.it (into).a ruin

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the land of the Chaldeans — this is the people that was not, when Asshur founded it for shipmen — they set up their towers, they overthrew the palaces thereof; it is made a ruin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6209.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6209/): 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).