Uncircumcised
עָרֵלStrong’s H6189arel (a-rel)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arel is the Hebrew word usually translated “uncircumcised”, “uncircumcised of” and “from uncircumcised”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.”
Meaning
- Uncircumcised, having foreskin
How it's translated
- uncircumcised 19
- the uncircumcised 6
- uncircumcised of 5
- and uncircumcised of 2
- and an uncircumcised 1
- an uncircumcised 1
- from uncircumcised 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 14
- 1 Samuel 4
- Exodus 3
- Leviticus 2
- Judges 2
- Jeremiah 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 6:12And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
- Exodus 6:30And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
- Exodus 12:48And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
- Leviticus 19:23And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
- Leviticus 26:41And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
- Joshua 5:7And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
Hebrew dictionary
עָרֵל arel · uncircumcised
uncircumcised, having foreskin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “uncircumcised” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
UNCIR'CUMCISED, adjective
s as z. Not circumcised.
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.