a.rah denotes making something bare or emptied, including bodily exposure, emptied containers, and complete stripping down.

The attested use most often concerns making a person, object, or structure bare or exposed; it also describes emptying or pouring out a vessel or life, and in a smaller set of contexts depicts spreading oneself or calling for destruction down to a foundation.

1. Making a body, object, or structure bare · dominant

   This use is shown where bodily parts are exposed in Leviticus 20:18, Leviticus 20:19, Isaiah 3:17, and Lamentations 4:21. It also concerns material exposure: in Habakkuk 3:13 the APB renders the clause "you uncovered foundations up to the neck," while Isaiah 22:6 and Zephaniah 2:14 describe a shield and cedar as uncovered.

   Leviticus 20:18Leviticus 20:19Isaiah 3:17Lamentations 4:21Habakkuk 3:13Zephaniah 2:14
2. Emptying or pouring out · common

   In Genesis 24:20, the Piel sequential imperfect occurs in the action of emptying a jar into a trough, and 2 Chronicles 24:11 uses a Piel imperfect when officials empty a chest. Isaiah 32:15 speaks of the spirit being "uncovered upon us," and Isaiah 53:12 places the Hiphil perfect in the clause "he poured out his soul to death."

   Genesis 24:202 Chronicles 24:11Isaiah 32:15Isaiah 53:12
3. Spreading out or stripping down completely · occasional

   Psalm 37:35 has a Hithpael participle in the description of a ruthless man "spreading himself like a luxuriant native tree." In Psalm 137:7, two Piel imperatives occur in the call, "Raze, raze, down to the foundation in her," presenting a stripping-down action rather than bodily exposure.

   Psalm 37:35Psalm 137:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously renders the clauses with "uncovered," "emptied," "poured out," "spreading himself," and "Raze." These renderings show the verse-level settings rather than fixed English equivalents for the term.