Skill
אָרְבָּהStrong’s H0698orovah (o-ro-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Orovah is the Hebrew word usually translated “tricks of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.”
Meaning
- Artifice, deceit, trick
How it's translated
- tricks of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אָרְבָּה orovah · skill
artifice, deceit, trick
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “skill” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SKILL, noun
Calleo, that is to strain, stretch, reach, and with to perfect, that is, to make sound, or to reach the utmost limit. The sense of folly, error, sin, preverseness, is from wandering, deviation.
- The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes.
- Any particular art.
All definitions and other forms of “skill”
SKILL, verb transitive
To know; to understand.
SKILL, verb intransitive
- To be knowing in; to be dextrous in performance.
- To differ; to make difference; to matter or be of interest.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.