1. עָרֹם
be shrewd, crafty
The corpus record — Hebrew
עָר֥וֹם
aram · vb
be shrewd, crafty
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 5 · 0.16/10k
Senses
2. עָרַם
properly, to be (or make) bare; but used only in the derivative sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) to be cunning (usually in a bad sense)
Attestations
- עָר֥וֹם 1 Samuel 23:22 (BHS)
- יַעְרִ֖ם 1 Samuel 23:22 (BHS)
- יַעֲרִ֣ימוּ Psalms 83:4 (BHS)
- יַעְרִֽם Proverbs 15:5 (BHS)
- יַעְרִ֑ם Proverbs 19:25 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.