עֲרִיסָה
dough
also: meal, coarse meal, kneading trough fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6182 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 15:20 עֲרִסֹ֣תֵ/כֶ֔ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it.
- Numbers 15:21 עֲרִסֹ֣תֵי/כֶ֔ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp Of the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a heave-offering throughout your generations.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun עריסה centers on the idea of “dough.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 4 verses. Numbers dominates its distribution — 2 of 4 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Numbers 15:20. Lexicons map it across 2 senses — beyond “dough” it also covers “meal”, “coarse meal”, and “kneading trough”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6182 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 25%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Dough 4×
- American Standard Version: Dough 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Dough 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dough 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- dough, meal, coarse meal, kneading trough
- meaning dubious
Word origin
[ עֲרִיסָה ] n.f. meaning dub., usu. coarse meal; 𝔊 AV RV dough
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to comminute
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עֲרִיסָה
- (עָרַס)
- 1. (b. h.; kneading-trough, dough of one trough, batch. Men. 67ᵃ עֲרִיסַת גוי; ע׳ הקדש Ms. M. (ed. עִיסַת).—Pl. עֲרִיסוֹת. Ḥull. 135ᵇ (ref. to Num. XV, 20) כדי עֲרִיסוֹתֵיכֶם of the size of your batches (in the desert); Men. l. c. Ms. M. (ed. עִיסוֹת׳; Erub. 83ᵇ עיס׳). e.g. Numbers 15:20
- 2. (cmp. עֶרֶס) cradle. Kel. XVI, 1 המטה והע׳ a couch or a cradle; Y. Ber. III, 5ᵈ bot. המיטה הערסה (corr. acc.). Kel. XXVI, 5 עור הע׳; Tosef. Kel. B. Bath. IV, 8 ועור האריסה ed. Zuck. (omitted in oth. ed.), v. עוֹר. Ib. VII, 12 עֲרִיסָא של זכוכית ed. Zuck. (oth. ed. עריסה) a glass cradle(?). Nidd. IV, 1 מעֲרִיסָתָן from their cradle (earliest childhood). Gen. R. s. 53, v. נִדְנֵד. Y. Macc. II, beg. 31ᶜ ישב לו ע"ג ע׳ ביום ודרך התינוק ע"ג ע׳ ביום וכ׳ if he sat down on a cradle in day time (and caused a child’s death): where it is customary to place a child in the cradle in day time, he does not go into exile (to the city of refuge, because his act is one of criminal neglect); a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H6182 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲרִיסֹתֵ֣י/נוּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Nehemiah 10:37 | 1 |
| עֲרִסֹ֣תֵ/כֶ֔ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 15:20 | 1 |
| עֲרִסֹ֣תֵי/כֶ֔ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 15:21 | 1 |
| עֲרִסֽוֹתֵי/כֶם֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 44:30 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
