Naked
מַעֲרֹםStrong’s H4636maarom (ma-a-rom)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Maarom is the Hebrew word usually translated “naked people their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.”
Meaning
- Naked thing, nakedness
How it's translated
- naked people their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲרֹם maarom · naked
naked thing, nakedness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “naked” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NAKED, adjective
Open, discovered, to strip.
- Not covered; bare; having no clothes on; as a naked body or a naked limb.
- Unarmed; defenseless; open; exposed; having no means of defense or protection against an enemys attack, or against other injury.
- Open to view; not concealed; manifest. Hebrews 4:13
- Destitute of worldly goods. Job 1:21
All definitions
- Exposed to shame and disgrace. Exodus 32:25
- Guilty and exposed to divine wrath.
- Plain; evident; undisguised; as the naked truth.
- Mere; bare; simple; wanting the necessary additions.
- Not inclosed in a pod or case; as naked seeds of a plant.
- Without leaves, fulcres or arms; as a naked stem or trunk.
- Not assisted by glasses; as the naked eye.
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.