(Gilgal)-haaraloth
עׇרְלָהStrong’s H6190orlah (or-lah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Orlah is the Hebrew word usually translated “foreskin his”, “foreskins of” and “foreskin of”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.”
Meaning
- Combined with gil.gal (גִּלְגָּל "Gilgal" H1537)
- Foreskin, uncircumcised
How it's translated
- foreskin his 4
- foreskins of 3
- foreskin of 2
- foreskin your 1
- foreskin their 1
- a foreskin 1
- foreskin its 1
- foreskins 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- Leviticus 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 17:14And 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.
- Genesis 17:23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
- Genesis 17:24And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- Genesis 17:25And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- Genesis 34:14And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
- Exodus 4:25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
Hebrew dictionary
עׇרְלָה orlah · (Gilgal)-haaraloth
Combined with gil.gal (גִּלְגָּל "Gilgal" H1537) § foreskin, uncircumcised
עׇרְלָה orlah · foreskin
foreskin, uncircumcised
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “foreskin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FO'RESKIN, noun
The skin that covers the glans penis; the prepuce.
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.