STRONGS NUMBER H6175


Word Summary
arum: crafty, shrewd, sensible
Original Word: עָרוּם
Transliteration: 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

עָרוּםadjective crafty, shrewd, sensible; —

1 crafty, ׳ע‎ as predicate, of serpent Genesis 3:1; plural as substantive עֲרוּמִים מַחְשְׁבוֺתJob 5:12, ע ׳לְשׁוֺן15:5.

2 in Proverbs, in good sense (opposed to מֶּתִי כְּסִיל, אֱוִיל,‎); as attributive עָרוּם אָדָםProverbs 12:23 a shrewd or sensible man; ׳ע‎ as substantive = id., 12:16; 13:16, so ע ׳חָכְמַת13:8; = prudent man 14:15; 22:3; 27:12; plural עֲרוּמִים14:18.

עֵרָנִי עֵרָן,‎ see below I. עור‎.

ערס‎ (√ of following).