To uncover
עָרָהStrong’s H6168arah (a-rah)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arah is the Hebrew word usually translated “has made naked”, “lay bare” and “emptied”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.”
Meaning
- To be bare, be nude, uncover, leave destitute, discover, empty, raze, pour out(Piel) · (Hiphil) · (Niphal) to be poured out, be exposed · (Hithpael)
How it's translated
- he has made naked 2
- lay bare 2
- he will lay bare 2
- and she emptied 1
- so they may pour out 1
- and spreading himself 1
- you lay bare 1
- it uncovered 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Psalms 3
- Leviticus 2
- Genesis 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Lamentations 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 20:18And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
- Leviticus 20:19And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
- 2 Chronicles 24:11Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
- Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
- Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
- Psalms 141:8But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Hebrew dictionary
עָרָה arah · to uncover
1) to be bare, be nude, uncover, leave destitute, discover, empty, raze, pour out 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to bare, lay bare 1a2) to lay bare by emptying, empty 1a3) to pour out 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to make naked, strip bare (of sexual offences) 1b2) to pour out 1c) (Niphal) to be poured out, be exposed 1d) (Hithpael) 1d1) to expose oneself, make oneself naked 1d2) pouring oneself, spreading oneself (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “uncover” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
UNCOVER, verb transitive
- To divest of a cover; to remove any covering from; a word of general use.
- To deprive of clothes; to strip; to make naked.
- To unroof; as a building.
- To take off the hat or cap; to bare the head.
All definitions
- To strip of a vail, or of any thing that conceals; to lay open; to disclose to view.
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.