עָרֹם
ʿārōm
be shrewd
Strong's H6191VerbHebrewTWOT 1698

עָרֹם (ʿārōm) is a Hebrew verb meaning be shrewd. It appears 5 times in 3 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6191).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1698)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1698)be shrewd, crafty; be, become shrewd; make, bare, be cunning; beware, take crafty, be prudent, deal subtilly
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

עָרֹם verb: be shrewd, crafty

Strong's H6191 עָרַם: 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)
KJV:× very, beware, take crafty (counsel), be prudent, deal subtilly.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Proverbs 15:5

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