עָרָה
a.rah
“to uncover”
Definition
to be (causatively, make) bare; hence, to empty, pour out, demolish
a primitive root;
- to be bare, be nude, uncover, leave destitute, discover, empty, raze, pour out 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to bare, lay bare 1a2) to lay bare by emptying, empty 1a3) to pour out 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to make naked, strip bare (of sexual offences) 1b2) to pour out 1c) (Niphal) to be poured out, be exposed 1d) (Hithpael) 1d1) to expose oneself, make oneself naked 1d2) pouring oneself, spreading oneself (participle)
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Occurrences
עָרָה appears 14 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.
You went forth for the salvation of Your people,to save Your anointed.You crushed the head of the house of the wickedand stripped him from head to toe.Selah
the Lord will bring soreson the heads of the daughters of Zion,and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great,and He will divide the spoils with the strong,because He has poured out His life unto death,and He was numbered with the transgressors.Yet He bore the sin of manyand made intercession for the transgressors.
If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.
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