Nakedness
מַעַרStrong’s H4626maar (ma-ar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Maar is the Hebrew word usually translated “nakedness your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.”
Meaning
- Bare, naked place, nakednessbare place · nakedness, pudenda (exposed in punishment)
How it's translated
- nakedness your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nahum 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַעַר maar · nakedness
1) bare, naked place, nakedness 1a) bare place 1b) nakedness, pudenda (exposed in punishment)
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.