עוֹר or

Hebrew word for “skin” · Strong’s H5785 · used 99 times in 82 verses

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Meaning

1) skin, hide; 1a) skin (of men); 1b) hide (of animals)

How it is translated

Glosses given for or in context, with how often each is used:

• skin 62
• hide 22
• skins 7
• hides 7
• more than the skin 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 13 (37), Numbers 4 (6), Exodus 34 (3), Exodus 35 (2), Job 19 (2), Ezekiel 37 (2), Micah 3 (2), Genesis 3 (1), Genesis 27 (1), Exodus 22 (1)

Forms

• עור 28
• בעור 24
• העור 14
• ערת 6
• וערת 6
• עורי 3
• עורו 3
• ערו 2
• בערו 2
• עורם 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with or more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נֶגַע nega “plague” 22
• בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 24
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 28
• פָּשָׂה pasah “to spread” 13
• צָרַעַת tsaraat “leprosy” 14
• תַּחַשׁ tachash “leather” 12
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 17
• שֵׂעָר sear “hair” 12
• רָאָה raah “to see” 26
• לָבָן lavan “white” 11
• שְׁתִי sheti “warp” 9
• אוֹ o “or” 15

Key verses

The verses using or that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 29:14 — But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
• Exodus 34:29 — And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist…
• Leviticus 13:2 — When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall…
• Leviticus 13:3 — And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the…
• Leviticus 13:6 — And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall…
• Job 2:4 — And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
• Job 19:20 — My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
• Job 19:26 — And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
• Jeremiah 13:23 — Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
• Lamentations 4:8 — Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
• Ezekiel 37:6 — And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I…
• Micah 3:2 — Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.