or · skin, leather

What it means

or (עוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “skin, leather”.

Skin, hide; leather.

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 outer layer of the body of persons and animals, or that layer tanned and used for clothing.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Skin: that of a person or of an animal; also leather. BDB: the skin of men, and the hide of animals. It comes from עוּר, “to be bare”.

• Garments of skin Genesis 3:21
• Animal skins in the dwelling and in the sacrifice Exodus 26:14Leviticus 11:32
• The skin in the laws of leprosy Leviticus 13:2
• “The skin of his face shone” Exodus 34:29
• The skin in poetry and the prophets Job 19:26Jeremiah 13:23

Historical and cultural background

Exodus 34:29-35 tells that, coming down from Sinai, Moses “did not know that the skin of his face shone”, and that he covered himself with a veil. Leviticus 13 gives the rules for examining marks on the skin.

How we translate it

“Skin” 78 times, “skins” 14, “leather” 7. In Exodus 22:27 the poor man's cloak is “his cloak for his skin”, as the Hebrew says.

How it is translated

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

• skin ×78
• skins ×14
• leather ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×17
• Leviticus×53
• Numbers×8
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×10
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×2
• Micah×2

• Genesis 3:21

  And YHWH Elohim made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin and clothed them.

• Genesis 27:16

  And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

• Exodus 22:27

  for it is his only covering; it is his cloak for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

• Exodus 25:5

  rams' skins dyed red, fine skins, and acacia wood;

• Exodus 26:14

  You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of fine skins above.

• Exodus 29:14

  But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

• Exodus 34:29

  And it happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in the hand of Moses as he came down from the mountain, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had spoken with him.

• Exodus 34:30

  And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and look, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near to him.

• Exodus 34:35

  And the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; and Moses would put back the veil on his face until he went in to speak with him.

• Exodus 35:7

  and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine skins, and acacia wood;

• Exodus 35:23

  And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine skins, brought them.

• Exodus 36:19

  And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of fine skins above.

• Exodus 39:34

  and the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of fine skins, and the veil that screens it;

• Leviticus 4:11

  But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and with its legs, its entrails and its dung,

• Leviticus 7:8

  And the priest who presents anyone’s burnt offering, the skin of the burnt offering that he has presented shall belong to the priest, to him.

• Leviticus 8:17

  But the bull, its skin, its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 9:11

  The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.

• Leviticus 11:32

  And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead will be unclean, whether any article of wood or garment or skin or sack, any article with which work is done; it shall be put into water, and it will be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.

• Leviticus 13:2

  “When a human being has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body a leprous sore, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

• Leviticus 13:3

  The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the appearance of the sore is deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore; when the priest has examined him he shall declare him unclean.

• Leviticus 13:4

  But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore seven days.

• Leviticus 13:5

  The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if the sore has stayed as it was in his eyes and the sore has not spread in the skin, the priest shall isolate him seven days a second time.

• Leviticus 13:6

  The priest shall examine him on the seventh day a second time, and if the sore has faded and the sore has not spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; it is an eruption; he shall wash his garments and be clean.

• Leviticus 13:7

  But if the eruption spreads widely in the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his purification, he shall show himself a second time to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:8

  The priest shall examine him, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is leprosy.

• Leviticus 13:10

  The priest shall examine him, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

• Leviticus 13:11

  it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall declare him unclean; he shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.

• Leviticus 13:12

  And if the leprosy breaks out widely in the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one with the sore from his head to his feet, as far as the priest’s eyes can see,

• Leviticus 13:18

  When the body has an ulcer in its skin and it has healed,

• Leviticus 13:20

  The priest shall examine it, and if its appearance is lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore; it has broken out in the ulcer.

• Leviticus 13:21

  But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in it and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.

• Leviticus 13:22

  And if it spreads widely in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a sore.

• Leviticus 13:24

  Or when the body has in its skin a burn by fire, and the patch of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish white or white,

• Leviticus 13:25

  the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the bright spot has turned white and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

• Leviticus 13:26

  But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.

• Leviticus 13:27

  The priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it has spread widely in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

• Leviticus 13:28

  But if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread in the skin but it has faded, it is the swelling of the burn, and the priest shall declare him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.

• Leviticus 13:30

  the priest shall examine the sore, and if its appearance is deeper than the skin and there is in it yellowish thin hair, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is ringworm; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

• Leviticus 13:31

  But if the priest examines the sore of ringworm and, look, its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore of ringworm seven days.

• Leviticus 13:32

  The priest shall examine the sore on the seventh day, and if the ringworm has not spread and there has not been yellowish hair in it, and the appearance of the ringworm is not deeper than the skin,

And 59 more times.