Nakedness
מָעוֹרStrong’s H4589maor (ma-or)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Maor is the Hebrew word usually translated “nakedness their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!”
Meaning
- Nakedness, pudendum
How it's translated
- nakedness their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Habakkuk 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מָעוֹר maor · nakedness
nakedness, pudendum
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.