עַרְעָר
destitute
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6199 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Psalms 1 verse
About this entry
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ערער — transliterated ʻarʻâr — is a Hebrew adjective carrying the sense “destitute.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Its uses cluster heavily in Psalms (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Psalms 102:17. From the same root come ערר, ערוער and ערירי. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6199 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Destitute 1×, He shall be like the heath 1×
- American Standard Version: Destitute 1×, He shall be like the heath 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Destitute 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Destitute 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6199 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6199 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6199 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6199 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- stripped, destitute
Word origin
Derived from ערר (ʻârar) (H6209) — to strip.
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.
עִרְעֵר
- (Pilp. of עוּר)
- 1. to stir up, excite to lamentation. M. Kat. 8ᵃ לא יְעַרְעֵר וכ׳, v. עוּר Polel
- 2. [to stir up strife, disturb,] to contest the legality of an action, the legitimacy of a person, his fitness as judge, witness &c. Y. Snh. III, 21ᵈ top אם בא ועי׳ עֲרָרוֹ קיים if he comes and protests (against the judgment given in his absence), his protest is valid. Y. Ned. V, end, 39ᵇ כל מי שיבוא וִיעַרְעֵר וכ׳ whosoever may at some future time contest this donation (having a claim against the property); a. e.—[Meg. 25ᵇ המְעַרְעֲרִים those inclined to argue,—a censorial change from המומרים or המינים; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 8.]
- 3. to stir on by chiding, to scold. Sot. III, 3 מְעַרְעֲרִים אותה וכ׳ they (the court) chide her and make her drink by force; [Rashi seems to take our w. in the sense of encouraging]; Tosef. ib. II, 3 מְרַעְרְעִין ed. Zuck. (Var. מערערין). Ib. בצבת של ברזל … מדדין וכ׳ ed. Zuck. (Var. מערערין, read ומע׳) they opened her mouth … and urged her on and forced her to drink; Sot. 19ᵇ. Y. ib. III, 18ᵈ bot. מערערים אותה עד וכ׳ we urge her on to drink by chiding her until her face becomes pale; Num. R. s. 9; Yalk. ib. 708 מכין אותה ומע׳ וכ׳ … they strike her with the broadside of a sword and urge her &c.; a. e.
- to be stirred up, v. עָרַר.
עִרְעֵר II
- to lay bare, strip, denude; to make lonely. Pesik. ʿĂniya, p. 134ᵇ (expl. סערה, Is. LIV, 11) מערערתא שעִרְעֲרוּהָ וכ׳ ‘the stripped’ (or lonely) one whom the nations have denuded (with ref. to ערו, Ps. CXXXVII, 7); Yalk. s. 339 שעיר ערוה (read: שעִירְעֲרוּהָ). Yalk. Num. 708 (play on המים המאררים למרים, Num. V, 24) שממררין את הגוף ומְעַרְעֲרִין את העון (not שממרין) because they make the body bitter (sick), and lay the sin bare; Sifré Num. 11 ומרעדים את העין (corr. acc.); Num. R. s. 9 שמאררים את הגוף ומבערין וכ׳ (corr. acc.; v., also, בָּרַר). e.g. Isaiah 54:11
- to be stripped, bare. Midr. Till. to Ps. CII, 18 (ref. to ערער, ib.) זה מנשה שנתע׳ ממעשים טובים (some ed. שערער, corr. acc.; ed. Bub. שחיה ער, read עַרְעָר) this refers to Manasseh who was bare of good deeds.—V. עַרְעָר.
עַרְעֵר I
- , to strip, make lonely. Part. pass. מְעַרְעַר; f. מְעַרְעַרְתָּא. Pesik. ʿĂniya, p. 134ᵇ, a. e., v. preced.
עִרְעֵר III
- (v. עֲרַע I) [to bring into contact,]
- 1. to keep a liquid in the throat for the sake of lubrication. Tosef. Sabb. XII (XIII), 10 if one has a sore throat, לא יְעַרְעֲרֶנּוּ בשמן וכ׳ he must not lubricate it with oil (on the Sabbath); Ber. 36ᵃ לא יְעָרְעֶנּוּ (Pi. of עָרַע; Ar. יערער׳); Tosef. Ter. IX, 12 יערענו (ed. Zuck. ירדנו?); Y. Shebi. VIII, 38ᵃ top יערער׳.
- 2. to cause to meet. Koh. R. to IX, 11 (ref. to יקרה, ib.; cmp. עַרְעִיתָא I) עת היא שפוגעת האדם ומְעַרְעֶרֶת בו וכ׳ it is time that strikes man and causes all these things (vicissitudes) to meet him.
עַרְעֵר II
- , to join, meet. Koh. R. to VII, 27 מְעַרְעֲרָא, v. עֲרַע I.
עַרְעֵר III
- (transpos. of רערע, v. רָעַע) to make shaky, loosen.—Part. pass. מְעַרְעַר; f. מְעַרְעֲרָה. Lam. R. introd. (R. Ḥănina 2) (ref. to רֹעָה, Prov. XXV, 19) שן מע׳ a shaky tooth, v. מַטְמֵט. e.g. Proverbs 25:19
עַרְעָר
- stripped, lonely. Lev. R. s. 30; Yalk. Ps. 855 שהיה ע׳ ממעשים וכ׳, v. עִרְעֵר.—Pl. עַרְעָרִים. Ib.; Midr. Till. to Ps. CII, 18.
עַרְעַר
- (עִרְעֵר I) protest; evidence of illegitimacy or disqualification. Keth. 21ᵇ וקרא ע׳ על אחד מהן and the qualification of one of the judges was contested; ib. sq. ע׳ דמאי of what nature was that alleged disqualification?; ע׳ דגזלנותא a disqualification based on the charge of robbery; ע׳ דפגם משפחה based on alleged family blemish (descent from slaves). B. Bath. 31ᵇ, sq. ע׳ חד איכא וכ׳ they differ as to acting on the evidence of disqualification proffered by one witness; ר׳ אלעזר סבר ע׳ חד R. El. is of the opinion that evidence of disqualification by one witness is sufficient; ע׳ תרי it requires two witnesses; Keth. 26ᵃ. Ib., a. fr. אין ע׳ פחות משנים in charges of disqualification no less than two witnesses are required. Y. Bicc. I, 64ᵃ משפחה … שהיו קורין עליה ע׳ a family … whose qualification for marriage with priests was disputed; Y. Yeb. VIII, 9ᵇ bot.; Bab. ib. 60ᵇ. Y. Keth. II, 26ᵇ bot. שטר שנקרא עליו ע׳ a document against which an informality was charged; 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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