Aramaic word · H6173

עַרְוָה

ve'arvat

dishonor

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

1) dishonour, nakedness

1a) dishonour (metaphor of nakedness)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 4:14 וְעַרְוַ֣ת and [the] dishonor of

    Now because we are in the service of the palace and it is not fitting for us to allow the king to be dishonored, we have sent to inform the king

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