Lexical Summary arom: to be shrewd or crafty Original Word: עָרַםTransliteration: arom Phonetic Spelling: (aw-ram') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be shrewd or crafty Meaning: to be, bare, to be cunning Strong's Concordance very, beware, take crafty counsel, be prudent, deal subtilly A primitive root; properly, to be (or make) bare; but used only in the derivative sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) to be cunning (usually in a bad sense) -- X very, beware, take crafty (counsel), be prudent, deal subtilly. Brown-Driver-Briggs H6191. arom [עָרֹם LagBN 31] verb be shrewd, crafty (Late Hebrew id., Hiph`il; Arabic , , be ill-natured, cross; ᵑ7 adjective עָרִים shrewd, Syriac id., and verb in derived species (Pe`al in Lexicons)); — Qal Infinitive absolute in יַעְרִם עָרֹם 1 Samuel 23:22 he is exceedingly crafty. Hiph`il Imperfect be crafty, 3 masculine singular יַעְרִם 1 Samuel 23:22; be or become shrewd יַעְרִם Proverbs 15:5; 19:25; all these Qal Imperfect in ִ֯ according to BaZMG xliii (1889), 180 so Ges§ 63n BuhlLex, but perhaps read יֶעְרַם as Qal; True. Hiph`il in 3 masculine plural סוֺד יַעֲרִימוּ Psalm 83:4 they make crafty (their) counsel against thy people. |
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