Bible word study

Aram (Strong’s H6191): Meaning in the Bible

Aram (עָרַם) is the Hebrew word numbered H6191 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, to be (or make) bare; but used only in the derivative sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) to be cunning (usually in a bad sense). In the King James Bible it is translated beware, take crafty (counsel), be prudent, deal subtilly..

• Original wordעָרַם
• Transliterationʻâram
• Pronunciationaw-ram'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH6191
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Aram appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Aram (H6191) stands behind 5 English renderings in 4 verses across 3 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 1 Samuel (2), Proverbs (2), Psalms (1).

How the King James Bible renders Aram, by count

• beware1 of 5 (20 percent)
• crafty1 of 5 (20 percent)
• prudent1 of 5 (20 percent)
• subtilly1 of 5 (20 percent)
• very1 of 5 (20 percent)

Three places to read Aram

• 1 Samuel 23:22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
• Psalms 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
• Proverbs 15:5 A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Aram in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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