Naked
עֵירֹםStrong’s H5903erom (e-rom)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Erom is the Hebrew word usually translated “nakedness” and “naked”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”
Meaning
- Naked
- Nakedness
How it's translated
- nakedness 4
- naked 3
- and naked 2
- and in nakedness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 6
- Genesis 3
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 3:10And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
- Genesis 3:11And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
- Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
- Ezekiel 16:7I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 16:22And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
- Ezekiel 16:39And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
Hebrew dictionary
עֵירֹם erom · naked
adj 1) naked n m 2) 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.