עוּר ʻûwr — to (be) bare
Translated in the KJV as be made naked.
a primitive root; to (be) bare.
ʻûwr in each stem
Niph'al
Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
תֵעוֹר֙ Hab 3:9 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person feminine singular
Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›