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title: עָרַר — strip oneself · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָרַר (6209), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: strip oneself. BDB 1906: vb. strip oneself Pōʿ. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָרַר

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«עָרַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **strip oneself** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 6209 · **BDB:** עָרַר

### Glosses

it.will.be.laid.bare (1); lay.yourself.bare (1); they.laid.bare (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

strip oneself [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6209/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. strip oneself Pōʿ. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6209/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. strip oneself (‖ form of ערה, II. עור);— Imv. עֹ֫רָה Is 32:11 (‖ פְּשֹׁ֫טָה; according to Ges§ 110 k Hi De al. ms. with fpl. subj.; according to Ew§ 226 a Du Di al. fpl., shortened from ערנה etc.). Pōʿ. Pf. 3 pl. עוֹרְרוּ אַרְמְנוֹתֶיהָ Is 23:13 they have laid bare (the foundations of) her palaces, i.e. destroyed them; so Inf. abs. + Impf. 3 fs. עַרְעֵר תִּתְעַרְעַר Je 51:58 be laid utterly bare, cf. ערה 1.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָרַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6209/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 32:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.11/)

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חִרְדוּ֙ שַֽׁאֲנַנּ֔וֹת רְגָ֖זָה בֹּֽטְח֑וֹת פְּשֹׁ֣טָֽה וְעֹ֔רָה וַחֲג֖וֹרָה עַל־חֲלָצָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* tremble O.carefree.\[women\] be.agitated O.confident.\[women\] strip.off and lay.yourself.bare and gird on loins

*JPS 1917:* Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye confident ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins,

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[Isaiah 23:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.13/)

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הֵ֣ן ׀ אֶ֣רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּ֗ים זֶ֤ה הָעָם֙ לֹ֣א הָיָ֔ה אַשּׁ֖וּר יְסָדָ֣הּ לְצִיִּ֑ים הֵקִ֣ימוּ בַחוּנָ֗יו עֹרְרוּ֙ אַרְמְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ שָׂמָ֖הּ לְמַפֵּלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* there! the.land of.\[the\].Chaldeans this \[is\].the people \[which\].not it.was Assyria it allocated.it to desert-dwellers they.raised.up siege-towers its they.laid.bare palaces its it made.it (into).a ruin

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the land of the Chaldeans — this is the people that was not, when Asshur founded it for shipmen — they set up their towers, they overthrew the palaces thereof; it is made a ruin.

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