ערום

Cognate with Arabic عُرْيَان (ʕuryān, “naked”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /aˈʁum/

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• Rhymes: -um
• Hyphenation: ע‧רום

ערום / עָרֹם • (aróm) (feminine ערומה / עֲרֻמָּה, masculine plural ערומים / עֲרֻמִּים, feminine plural ערומות / עֲרֻמּוֹת) [pattern: קָטֹל]

1. naked, nude, unclothed
   • Tanach, Genesis 2:25, with translation of the King James Version:

     וַיִּהְיוּ שְׁנֵיהֶם עֲרוּמִּים הָאָדָם וְאִשְׁתּוֹ וְלֹא יִתְבֹּשָׁשׁוּ׃

     vayihyú sh'nehém arumím ha'adám v'ishtó v'ló yitbosháshu.

     And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

   • רותם כהן, כמעט שהתרגלתי

     דווקא שהתחלתי להבין שנחמד לי לצאת ערום מהמקלחת.

     dávka shehitkhálti l'havín shenekhmád li latsét arúm mehamiklákhat

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• H6174 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

עָרוּם • (arúm) (feminine עֲרוּמָה, masculine plural עֲרוּמִים, feminine plural עֲרוּמוֹת)

1. (archaic) Cunning, crafty, prudent, subtle.
   • Tanach, Genesis 3:1, with translation of the King James Version:

     וְהַנָּחָשׁ הָיָה עָרוּם מִכֹּל חַיַּת הַשָּׂדֶה […]

     v'hanakhásh hayá arúm mikol khayát hasadé […]

     Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field […]

• H6175 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• “An Early Christian Arabic Account Of The Creation Of The World”, in The Qurʾān in Context‎^[1], BRILL, 1 January 2009, →DOI