עָרָה
a.rah
to uncover
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "a.rah" (H6168) means "to uncover". This physical action can involve removing a covering or revealing something that was previously hidden. The word is used 15 times in the Bible, indicating its importance in various contexts. In its range of usage, "a.rah" can refer to uncovering a person, such as when a woman is uncovered in public (e.g., Genesis 24:65), or uncovering a place, like when a city is laid bare (e.g., Isaiah 13:19). The word can also imply a sense of exposure or vulnerability, as when someone's nakedness is revealed (e.g., Genesis 9:21). The significance of "a.rah" lies in its ability to convey a sense of exposure, vulnerability, and sometimes shame. Its use in the Bible highlights the importance of modesty, concealment, and covering in various social and cultural contexts.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
15 total occurrences across the text
Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 137:7Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”
Psalms 137:7Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”
Psalms 141:8For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
Isaiah 3:17therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
Isaiah 22:6Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
Isaiah 32:15until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
Isaiah 53:12Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.
Habakkuk 3:13You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot.
Zephaniah 2:14Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
Genesis 24:20She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
Leviticus 20:18“ ‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus 20:19“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.