ara · empty, lay bare

What it means

ara (עָרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “empty, lay bare”.

Empty, pour out; lay bare.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To strip what covers something and leave it in view, or to tear it down to its base.
2. To drain completely; "give up one's soul".
3. To grow wide like a tree.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Raze it ×2
• laying bare ×2
• poured out ×2
• emptied ×1
• empty ×1
• has been laid bare ×1
• has laid bare ×1
• pour out ×1
• spreading himself out ×1
• strip yourself bare ×1
• others ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×4
• Lamentations×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 24:20

  She quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

• Leviticus 20:18

  And a man who lies with a woman in her sickness and uncovers her nakedness has laid bare her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

• Leviticus 20:19

  And the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister you shall not uncover, for that is laying bare one’s own close relative; they shall bear their iniquity.

• 2 Chronicles 24:11

  And it happened, whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much silver, the king’s scribe and the appointed officer of the head priest would come and empty the chest, and take it and return it to its place. So they did day by day, and they gathered silver in abundance.

• Psalms 37:35

  I have seen a fearsome wicked man, spreading himself out like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

• Psalms 137:7

  Remember, YHWH, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, those who said, “Raze it, raze it, down to its foundations.”

• Psalms 141:8

  For to you, YHWH Adonai, are my eyes; in you I take refuge; do not pour out my soul.

• Isaiah 3:17

  Adonai will strike with scabs the crown of the daughters of Zion, and YHWH will lay bare their nakedness.

• Isaiah 22:6

  And Elam took up the quiver with chariots of men, horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

• Isaiah 32:15

  until a spirit is poured out on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes an orchard, and the orchard is regarded as a forest.

• Isaiah 53:12

  Therefore I will give him a portion with the many, and with the strong he will divide the spoil, because he poured out to death his soul, and with the transgressors he was counted; and he carried the sin of many, and for the transgressors he intercedes.

• Lamentations 4:21

  Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; to you also the cup will pass; you will become drunk and strip yourself bare.

• Habakkuk 3:13

  You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed; you shattered the head of the house of the wicked, laying bare the foundation up to the neck. Selah.

• Zephaniah 2:14

  And flocks will lie down in her midst, every animal of the nations; both the pelican and the hedgehog will lodge in her capitals; a voice will sing in the window; dryness will be on the threshold; for her cedar work has been laid bare.

And 1 more times.