עָרֵל
ʻârêl · aw-rale'
uncircumcised (i.e. still having the prepuce uncurtailed)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6188 (עָרֵל); properly, exposed, i.e. projecting loose (as to the prepuce); used only technically,
uncircumcised (i.e. still having the prepuce uncurtailed)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: uncircumcised (person).
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
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the head, the highest › authority, the one who leads
To see and know of the head, the highest of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָרֵל 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
35 occurrences · 35 OT · 0 NT · 30 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the uncircumcised8 · 23%
- uncircumcised5 · 14%
- are uncircumcised2 · 6%
- with the uncircumcised2 · 6%
- him: all of them uncircumcised2 · 6%
- and the uncircumcised1 · 3%
- who am of uncircumcised1 · 3%
- behold, i am of uncircumcised1 · 3%
- for no uncircumcised person1 · 3%
- shall it be as uncircumcised1 · 3%
- their uncircumcised1 · 3%
- for they were uncircumcised1 · 3%
- of these uncircumcised1 · 3%
- for who is this uncircumcised1 · 3%
- and this uncircumcised1 · 3%
- therewith; lest these uncircumcised1 · 3%
- me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised1 · 3%
- into thee the uncircumcised1 · 3%
- is uncircumcised1 · 3%
- and uncircumcised1 · 3%
- nor uncircumcised1 · 3%
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.