עָרַר
arar · strip bare; raze
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6209 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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arar (עָרַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “strip bare; raze”.
To strip bare, to lay open; to raze to the foundations.
How to say it
a·rar
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
- Remove clothing, leave nothing on.
- Destroy until nothing stands.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- make yourselves bare ×1
- razed ×1
- they stripped ×1
- will be utterly ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 23:13
Look, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; Assyria founded it for desert creatures; they raised their siege towers, they stripped its palaces; he made it a ruin.
- Isaiah 32:11
Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you confident ones; strip and make yourselves bare, and gird yourselves on your hips.
- Jeremiah 51:58
Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly razed, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and peoples labor for nothing, and nations for the fire, and they grow weary.
And 1 more times.