ערום

Cognate with Arabic عُرْيَان‎ (ʕuryān, “naked”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /aˈʁum/

ערום /עָרֹם • ('aróm) (feminine ערומה / עֲרֻמָּה‎, masculine plural ערומים / עֲרֻמִּים‎, feminine plural ערומות / עֲרֻמּוֹת‎)

1. Naked, nude, unclothed.
   • Genesis 2:25, with translation of the King James Version:

     ‏וַיִּהְיוּ שְׁנֵיהֶם עֲרוּמִּים הָאָדָם וְאִשְׁתּוֹ וְלֹא יִתְבֹּשָׁשׁוּ׃‎‎

     vayihyú sh'neihém arumím ha'adám v'ishtó v'ló yitbosháshu.

     And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

   • רותם כהן, כמעט שהתרגלתי

     ‏דווקא שהתחלתי להבין שנחמד לי לצאת ערום מהמקלחת.‎‎

     davka shehitkhalti l'havin shenekhmad li latset arum mehamiklakhat

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• H6174 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

עָרוּם • (arúm) (feminine עֲרוּמָה‎, masculine plural עֲרוּמִים‎, feminine plural עֲרוּמוֹת‎)

1. (derogatory) (archaic) Cunning, crafty, prudent, subtle.
   • c. 1000–400 B.C.E., Genesis 3:1, with translation of the King James Version:

     ‏וְהַנָּחָשׁ הָיָה עָרוּם מִכֹּל חַיַּת הַשָּׂדֶה […]‎

     v'hanakhásh hayá arúm mikol khayát hasadé […]

     Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field […]

• H6175 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• “An Early Christian Arabic Account Of The Creation Of The World”, in The Qurʾān in Context‎, BRILL, 2009-01-01, →DOI