עָרוּם
ʻârûwm · aw-room'
cunning (usually in a bad sense)
Lexicon
Derivation: passive participle of H6191 (עָרַם);
cunning (usually in a bad sense)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: crafty, prudent, subtil.
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
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the head, the highest › to fasten and establish › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To see and know of the head, the highest that works to fasten and establish of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָרוּם 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
11 occurrences · 11 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a prudent3 · 27%
- of the crafty2 · 18%
- but the prudent2 · 18%
- more subtil1 · 9%
- but a prudent1 · 9%
- every prudent1 · 9%
- of the prudent1 · 9%
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.