עוֹר
ʻôwr · ore
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5783 (עוּר);
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
- skin (as naked)
- by implication, hide, leather
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hide, leather, skin.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
To see and know that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עוֹר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
99 occurrences · 99 OT · 0 NT · 48 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- skins18 · 23%
- in the skin16 · 20%
- than the skin9 · 11%
- of skin7 · 9%
- of skins3 · 4%
- not in the skin3 · 4%
- my skin3 · 4%
- their skin3 · 4%
- his skin2 · 3%
- the skins1 · 1%
- for his skin1 · 1%
- and his skin1 · 1%
- not that the skin1 · 1%
- behold, the skin1 · 1%
- that the skin1 · 1%
- and the skin1 · 1%
- shall have to himself the skin1 · 1%
- and his hide1 · 1%
- and the hide1 · 1%
- or skin1 · 1%
- shall have in the skin1 · 1%
- and it be in the skin1 · 1%
- all the skin1 · 1%
- even in the skin1 · 1%
- than the other skin1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.