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title: עוּר — be exposed · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עוּר (5783), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: be exposed. BDB 1906: vb. be exposed, bare Pōʿl. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עוּר

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«עוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be exposed** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5783 · **BDB:** עוּר²

### Glosses

it.is.made.bare (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be exposed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5783/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be exposed, bare Pōʿl [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5783/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be exposed, bare (akin to עָרָה, ערר; Arabic عَوْرَةٌ = pudenda);— Impf. 3 fs. עֶרְיָה תֵעוֹר קַשְׁתֶּ֑ךְ Hb 3:9 into nakedness (i.e. utterly) is thy bow laid bare, made ready; We proposes עוֹרֵר תְּעוֹרֵר (cf. 2 S 23:18, I. עור Pōʿl.), and so Now \[from √ ערר, lay bare\] thou layest, etc.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (27 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (20 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5783/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Habakkuk 3:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.9/)

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עֶרְיָ֤ה תֵעוֹר֙ קַשְׁתֶּ֔ךָ שְׁבֻע֥וֹת מַטּ֖וֹת אֹ֣מֶר סֶ֑לָה נְהָר֖וֹת תְּבַקַּע־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* bareness it.is.made.bare bow your oaths of.arrows a.word Selah rivers you.split.open \[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word. Thou dost cleave the earth with rivers.

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