Words

עָרוּם H6175

Home gloss

shrewd

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

subtil / subtle

Note

Proverbs' prudent one (12:16, 23; 14:8, 15, 18; 22:3) and Job's crafty (5:12; 15:5); adjective to the field's עָרְמָה "shrewdness" (Prov 8). Rhymes with עָרוֹם "nude" (2:25) to carry the pun

Rulings

24, 44

Occurrences (1)

Genesis 3

• 3:1 And the serpent was more shrewd than every living thing of the field that Elohim had made; and he said to the woman, "Is it even so, that Elohim said, 'You shall not eat from every tree of the garden'?"