STRONGS NUMBER H5785


Word Summary
or: a skin
Original Word: עוֹר
Transliteration: or
Phonetic Spelling: (ore)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a skin
Meaning: skin, hide, leather
Strong's Concordance
hide, leather, skin

From uwr; skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather -- hide, leather, skin.

see HEBREW uwr

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5785. or

עוֺר99 noun masculineJob 7:5 skin ( Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician ערת‎ Lzb346); — ׳ע‎ absolute Genesis 3:21 +, construct Exodus 34:29 +; suffix עֹרוֺ29:14 +, עוֺרוֺJeremiah 13:23, עֹרָהּNumbers 19:5, etc.; plural construct עֹרֹתGenesis 27:16 +, עוֺרֹתExodus 39:34 suffix עֹרֹתָםLeviticus 16:27; — skin:

1 of men (55 t.), לְעֹרוֺ שִׂמְלָתוֺExodus 22:26 (E), ׳ע מָּנָיו34:29-30, compare 34:35 (all P); (dark) skin of Cushite Jeremiah 13:23; see also Ezekiel 37:6, 8; Lamentations 3:8; Job 7:5; 10:11, +; in hyperbole Micah 3:2-3, שִׁנָּ֑י עוֺרJob 19:20b the skin of my teeth, i.e. gums (si vera lectio); also Leviticus 13:2 33t. Leviticus 13 (P), in tests for leprosy (see especially בְּֿשָׂרוֺ׳ע13:2; 13:2; 13:3; 13:4; 13:11, compare 13:3; 13:38; 13:39; 13:43); עוֺר בְּעַד עוֺרJob 2:4 skin in behalf of, for, skin, apparently proverb. phrase of barter, = everything has its price (on varieties of interpretation see Commentaries).

2 hide of animals (44 t.), always — except Job 40:31 — after skinning: Genesis 27:16 (J); of sacrifice victims Exodus 29:14; Leviticus 4:11 5t. (all P); prepared for use (by some process of tanning, compare NowArchaeology i. 242), sometimes = leather: material of garments Genesis 3:21 (J), girdle 2 Kings 1:8, any article Leviticus 11:32; 13:48 ff Numbers 31:20 (P); covering of tabernacle Exodus 25:5 (twice in verse) + 10 t. Exodus 26; Exodus 35; Exodus 36; Exodus 39, of ark, sacred utensils, etc., Numbers 4:6 5t. Numbers 4..

עוריםIsaiah 30:6 see עַיִר‎.