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Noun [Hebrew]

IPA: /ʕærˈwaː/ [Biblical-Hebrew], /ʕɛrˈvɔ/ [Tiberian-Hebrew], [ʕɛʀˈvɔː] [Tiberian-Hebrew], /ʕeʁˈva/ [Modern-Israeli-Hebrew], /eʁˈva/ [Modern-Israeli-Hebrew]
Etymology: Related to Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra), with both roots respectively being modifications of the biliteral root √ʕ-r. Etymology templates: {{cog|ar|عَوْرَة}} Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra) Head templates: {{he-noun|cons=עֶרְוַת|dwv=עֶרְוָה|g=f|pat=קַטְלָה|pl=עֲרָיוֹת|pl2=עֶרְווֹת|tr='ervá}} ערוה / עֶרְוָה • ('ervá) f (plural indefinite עֲרָיוֹת or עֶרְווֹת, singular construct עֶרְוַת־) [pattern: קַטְלָה] Inflection templates: {{he-decl|עֶרְוָה|עֶרְוַת־|הָעֶרְוָה|עֶרְוָתוֹ|nolink=1}} Forms: עֶרְוָה [canonical], 'ervá [romanization], עֲרָיוֹת [indefinite, plural], עֶרְווֹת [indefinite, plural], עֶרְוַת־ [construct, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], עֶרְוָה [indefinite, singular], עֶרְוָתִי [feminine, first-person, masculine, possessed-form, singular], עֶרְוָתֵנוּ [feminine, first-person, masculine, plural, possessed-form], הָעֶרְוָה [definite, singular], עֶרְוָתְךָ [masculine, possessed-form, second-person, singular], עֶרְוָתֵךְ [feminine, possessed-form, second-person, singular], עֶרְוַתְכֶם [masculine, plural, possessed-form, second-person], עֶרְוַתְכֶן [feminine, plural, possessed-form, second-person], עֶרְוַת־ [construct, singular], עֶרְוָתוֹ [masculine, possessed-form, singular, third-person], עֶרְוָתָהּ [feminine, possessed-form, singular, third-person], עֶרְוָתָם [masculine, plural, possessed-form, third-person], עֶרְוָתָן [feminine, plural, possessed-form, third-person]
  1. nakedness, nudity
    Sense id: en-ערוה-he-noun-u98UwwVC
  2. genitalia, pudenda (the parts of the body which one ought to be ashamed of and must thus cover)
    Sense id: en-ערוה-he-noun-PTBeRIjf Categories (other): Hebrew entries with incorrect language header, Hebrew links with redundant alt parameters, Hebrew links with redundant wikilinks, Hebrew terms in the pattern קַטְלָה, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Sex Disambiguation of Hebrew entries with incorrect language header: 5 78 16 Disambiguation of Hebrew links with redundant alt parameters: 9 66 25 Disambiguation of Hebrew links with redundant wikilinks: 9 66 25 Disambiguation of Hebrew terms in the pattern קַטְלָה: 13 49 38 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 71 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 87 9 Disambiguation of Sex: 0 76 24
  3. (Jewish law) a sexually forbidden relation Tags: Jewish
    Sense id: en-ערוה-he-noun-FrO20l4e Categories (other): Jewish law Topics: law
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: עֶרְיָה
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        "second-person"
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        "pl": "עֲרָיוֹת",
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        "tr": "'ervá"
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              0,
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              43
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          "ref": "Tanach, [[s:he:T0318#יח_טז|18:16]], with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:",
          "text": "עֶרְוַת אֵשֶׁת־אָחִיךָ לֹא תְגַלֵּה עֶרְוַת אָחִיךָ הִוא׃",
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          "law",
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        "second-person"
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    {
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          "text": "עֶרְוַת אֵשֶׁת־אָחִיךָ לֹא תְגַלֵּה עֶרְוַת אָחִיךָ הִוא׃",
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          "Jewish",
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        [
          "law",
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          "forbidden",
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          "relation",
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      ],
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        "Jewish"
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        "law"
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      "ipa": "/ʕærˈwaː/",
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      "ipa": "/ʕɛrˈvɔ/",
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        "Tiberian-Hebrew"
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      "ipa": "[ʕɛʀˈvɔː]",
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        "Tiberian-Hebrew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʕeʁˈva/",
      "tags": [
        "Modern-Israeli-Hebrew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/eʁˈva/",
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        "Modern-Israeli-Hebrew"
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}

Download raw JSONL data for ערוה meaning in All languages combined (4.6kB)

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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Person:'",
  "path": [
    "ערוה"
  ],
  "section": "Hebrew",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ערוה",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Number:'",
  "path": [
    "ערוה"
  ],
  "section": "Hebrew",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ערוה",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'State:'",
  "path": [
    "ערוה"
  ],
  "section": "Hebrew",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ערוה",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Person:'",
  "path": [
    "ערוה"
  ],
  "section": "Hebrew",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ערוה",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.