עׇרְלָהʻorlâh

foreskin (Genesis 34:14; Jeremiah 9:24; Exodus 4:25; Deuteronomy 10:16; Joshua 5:3)

Pronunciation: or-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6190

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 16 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 17:11 You must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as a sign of the covenant between me and you.
  • Genesis 17:14 Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.”
  • Genesis 17:23 On that very day Abraham took his son, Ishmael, and every male in his household, including those born there and those he had bought. Then he circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins, just as God had told him.
  • Genesis 17:24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
  • Genesis 17:25 and Ishmael, his son, was thirteen.
  • Genesis 34:14 They said to them, “We couldn’t possibly allow this, because you’re not circumcised. It would be a disgrace for our sister to marry a man like you!
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).