Skin
עוֹרStrong’s H5785or
Appears in 82 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Or is the Hebrew word usually translated “skin of”, “skin” and “hide”. It appears in 82 verses of the Old Testament.
“Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”
Meaning
- Skin, hideskin (of men) · hide (of animals)
How it's translated
- skin of 11
- in the skin 11
- hide 10
- the skin 9
- skins of 7
- skin 6
- and hides of 6
- on skin of 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 44
- Exodus 11
- Numbers 8
- Job 8
- Lamentations 3
- Genesis 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:16And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
- Exodus 22:27For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
- Exodus 25:5And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
- Exodus 26:14And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
- Exodus 29:14But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
- Exodus 34:29And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
All 82 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עוֹר or · skin
1) skin, hide 1a) skin (of men) 1b) hide (of animals)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “skin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SKIN, noun
- The natural covering of animal bodies, consisting of the cuticle or scarf-skin, the rete mucosum, and the cutis or hide.
- A hide; a pelt; the skin of an animal separated from the body, whether green, dry or tanned.
- The body; the person; in ludicrous language
- The bark or husk of a plant; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
All definitions and other forms of “skin”
SKIN, verb transitive
- To strip off the skin or hide; to flay; to peel.
- To cover with skin
- to cover superficially.
SKIN, verb intransitive
To be covered with skin; as a wound skins over.
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.