עָרָה
ʻârâh · aw-raw'
to be (causatively, make) bare; hence, to empty, pour out, demolish
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be (causatively, make) bare; hence, to empty, pour out, demolish
- to be (causatively, make) bare
- hence, to empty, pour out, demolish
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: leave destitute, discover, empty, make naked, pour (out), rase, spread self, uncover.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
To see and know of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָרָה 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and emptied2 · 13%
- he hath discovered1 · 6%
- for he uncovereth1 · 6%
- and spreading1 · 6%
- rase1 · 6%
- it, rase1 · 6%
- leave1 · 6%
- destitute1 · 6%
- will discover1 · 6%
- uncovered1 · 6%
- be poured1 · 6%
- because he hath poured out1 · 6%
- and shalt make thyself naked1 · 6%
- by discovering1 · 6%
- for he shall uncover1 · 6%
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.