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title: עָרוּם — crafty · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָרוּם (6175), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: crafty. BDB 1906: adj. crafty, shrewd, sensible. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָרוּם

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«עָרוּם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **crafty** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 11 times · **Key:** 6175 · **BDB:** עָרוּם

### Glosses

a.sensible.\[person\] (3); of.crafty.\[people\] (2); \[is\].sensible (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

crafty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6175/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. crafty, shrewd, sensible [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6175/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. crafty, shrewd, sensible;— crafty, ע׳ as pred., of serpent Gn 3:1; pl. as subst. מַחְשְׁבוֹת עֲרוּמִים Jb 5:12, לְשׁוֹן ע׳ 15:5. in Pr, in good sense (opp. אֱוִיל, כְּסִיל, פֶּתִי); as attrib. אָדָם עָרוּם Pr 12:23 a shrewd or sensible man; ע׳ as subst. = id., v 16; 13:16, so חָכְמַת ע׳ 14:8; = prudent man 14:15; 22:3; 27:12; pl. עֲרוּמִים 14:18.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָרוּם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6175/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 14:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.18/)

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נָחֲל֣וּ פְתָאיִ֣ם אִוֶּ֑לֶת וַֽ֝עֲרוּמִ֗ים יַכְתִּ֥רוּ דָֽעַת׃

*Word for word:* they.inherit naive.people foolishness and sensible.\[people\] they.surround knowledge

*JPS 1917:* The thoughtless come into possession of folly; but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

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[Proverbs 27:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.12/)

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עָר֤וּם רָאָ֣ה רָעָ֣ה נִסְתָּ֑ר פְּ֝תָאיִ֗ם עָבְר֥וּ נֶעֱנָֽשׁוּ׃

*Word for word:* a.sensible.\[person\] he.sees evil he.hides.himself naive.people they.pass.on they.are.punished

*JPS 1917:* A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the thoughtless pass on, and are punished.

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