To pluck
אָרָהStrong’s H0717arah (a-rah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arah is the Hebrew word usually translated “have plucked it” and “have gathered”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?”
Meaning
- To pluck, gather(Qal) to pluck (grapes)
How it's translated
- and they have plucked it 1
- i have gathered 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Song of Solomon 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
אָרָה arah · to pluck
1) to pluck, gather 1a) (Qal) to pluck (grapes)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pluck” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLUCK, verb transitive
- To pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off, out or from, with a twitch.“They pluck the fatherless from the breast” Job 24:9
- To strip by plucking; as, to pluck a fowl.“They that pass by do pluck her” Psalms 80:12“He shall pluck away his crop with his feathers” Leviticus 1:16
All definitions and other forms of “pluck”
PLUCK, noun
The heart, liver and lights of an animal.
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.