King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6175
Transliteration: arum
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-room')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: crafty, shrewd, sensible
Meaning: crafty, shrewd, sensible
Word Summary
arum: crafty, shrewd, sensible
Original Word: עָרוּםTransliteration: arum
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-room')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: crafty, shrewd, sensible
Meaning: crafty, shrewd, sensible
Strong's Concordance
crafty, prudent, subtil Passive participle of aram; cunning (usually in a bad sense) -- crafty, prudent, subtil.
see HEBREW aram
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6175. arum
עָרוּם adjective crafty, shrewd, sensible; —
1 crafty, ׳ע as predicate, of serpent Genesis 3:1; plural as substantive עֲרוּמִים מַחְשְׁבוֺת Job 5:12, ע ׳לְשׁוֺן 15:5.
2 in Proverbs, in good sense (opposed to מֶּתִי כְּסִיל, אֱוִיל,); as attributive עָרוּם אָדָם Proverbs 12:23 a shrewd or sensible man; ׳ע as substantive = id., 12:16; 13:16, so ע ׳חָכְמַת 13:8; = prudent man 14:15; 22:3; 27:12; plural עֲרוּמִים 14:18.
עֵרָנִי עֵרָן, see below I. עור.
ערס (√ of following).