the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Strong's #6192 - עָרַם
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- (Niphal) to heap up, pile, be heaped up
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compare DHM ZMG xxx (1876), 676; VOJ i. 25 who compare Biblical Hebrew עֲרִמָה Arabic 
(which Frä135 thinks Aramaic loan-word), compare 
Pa`el heap up; > Wetzst Zeitschr. für Ethnol. 1873,279 (Syriac Dreschtafel) who compare 
strip [whence עַרְמוֺן below], and thinks עֲרֵמָה = bare heap);- Perfect 3 plural נֶעֶרְמוּ מַיִם Exodus 15:8.
עָרַם
(1) i.q. عرَمَ to make naked, [“to be naked”], to uncover, whence עָרֹם, עָרוֹם which see. Intrans. عَرِمَ to be impudent, spiteful (manifesting one’s malevolent mind).
(2) to be crafty. (Syr. Ethpe. id. ܥܰܪܝܺܡܳܐ, עֲרִימָא crafty, spiteful.) Once found in Kal, 1 Samuel 23:22.
Hiphil
(1) to make crafty, Psalms 83:4, יַעֲרִימוּ סוֹד “they make their counsel crafty,” they take crafty counsels.
(2) to act craftily, 1 Samuel 23:22, and, in a good sense, to act prudently, Proverbs 15:5, 19:25.
Derivatives עָרוּם, עֹרֶם, עָרְמָה [עָרוֹם, עֵירֹם, מַעֲרֻמִּים].
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עָרַם not used in Kal, cognate to the verbs, אָרַם, הָרַם, רָאַם, רוּם, רָמַם, to be high. (Syr. Pa. to hear up; Arab. عرم to be heaped up. Saad. Exodus 15:8 عَرَمَةُ a heap of grain on the threshing floor.)
Niphal, to be heaped up, Exodus 15:8.
Derivatives, עֲרֵמָה, עַרְמוֹן.
