Arah means “empty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6168 עָרָה (`arah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `arah (aw-raw') v. 1. to be (causatively, make) bare 2. (hence) to empty, pour out, demolish It has 14 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include bare, she, discovered, leave, and discover. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`arah (aw-raw') v. 1. to be (causatively, make) bare 2. (hence) to empty, pour out, demolish [a primitive root] KJV: leave destitute, discover, empty, make naked, pour (out), rase, spread self, uncover.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6168. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to uncover
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `arah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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14 indexed usages in 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.
And 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.
And 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.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6168.
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.
And 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.
And 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.
Now 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.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6168, grouped by book.
Arah (Strong's H6168) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "empty". `arah (aw-raw') v. 1. to be (causatively, make) bare 2. (hence) to empty, pour out, demolish
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H6168 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6168 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bare, she, discovered, leave, discover, and poured. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.