rla · foreskin

What it means

rla (עׇרְלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “foreskin”.

The skin removed in circumcision.

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. The skin cut in circumcision.
2. What is closed, not given to God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• foreskin ×9
• foreskins ×5
• uncircumcised ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• Jeremiah×2

• Genesis 17:11

  You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

• Genesis 17:14

  But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

• Genesis 17:23

  Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house and all those bought with his silver, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, as Elohim had told him.

• Genesis 17:24

  Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

• Genesis 17:25

  And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

• Genesis 34:14

  They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.

• Exodus 4:25

  Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to his feet and said, “Surely a bridegroom of blood you are to me!”

• Leviticus 12:3

  And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

• Leviticus 19:23

  And when you come into the land and plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as uncircumcised; three years it shall be uncircumcised to you; it shall not be eaten.

• Deuteronomy 10:16

  So circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.

• Joshua 5:3

  So Joshua made for himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at the Hill of the Foreskins.

• 1 Samuel 18:25

  Saul said, “Thus you shall say to David: ‘The king has no delight in a bride-price, but in a hundred foreskins of Philistines, to take vengeance on the enemies of the king.’” And Saul planned to bring down David by the hand of the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 18:27

  when David arose and went, he and his men, and struck among the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they counted them out in full to the king, to become son-in-law to the king. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

• 2 Samuel 3:14

  David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, saying, “Give me my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

• Jeremiah 4:4

  Circumcise yourselves to YHWH, and remove the foreskins of your heart, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my fury will go out like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

• Jeremiah 9:25

  Look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will punish all who are circumcised in the foreskin: