Nakedness
γυμνότηςStrong’s G1132gumnotēs
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Gumnotēs is the Greek word usually translated “nakedness”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
Meaning
Usually translated “nakedness”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- nakedness 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 1
- 2 Corinthians 1
- Revelation 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Corinthians 11:27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
- Revelation 3:18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Greek dictionary
γυμνότης gumnotēs · nakedness
γυμνότης, -ητος, ἡ (γυμνός), [in LXX for עֵירֹם, Deu.28:48 * ;] nakedness: Rom.8:35, 2Co.11:27, Rev.3:18.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “nakedness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NAKEDNESS, noun
- Want of covering or clothing; nudity; bareness.
- Want of means of defense.“Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land are ye come” Genesis 42:9
- Plainness; openness to view.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.