Nakedness
עֶרְוָהStrong’s H6172ervah (er-vah)
Appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ervah is the Hebrew word usually translated “nakedness of”, “nakedness her” and “nakedness your”. It appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.”
Meaning
- Nakedness, nudity, shame, pudendapudenda (implying shameful exposure) · nakedness of a thing, indecency, improper behaviour · exposed, undefended (fig.)
How it's translated
- nakedness of 27
- nakedness her 12
- nakedness your 6
- and nakedness of 3
- nakedness 2
- nakedness their 2
- own nakedness your 1
- nakedness his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 20
- Ezekiel 7
- Genesis 4
- Exodus 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- Isaiah 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 9:23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
- Genesis 42:9And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
- Genesis 42:12And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
- Exodus 20:26Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
- Exodus 28:42And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
- Leviticus 18:6None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
עֶרְוָה ervah · nakedness
1) nakedness, nudity, shame, pudenda 1a) pudenda (implying shameful exposure) 1b) nakedness of a thing, indecency, improper behaviour 1c) exposed, undefended (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: ar.vah (עַרְוָה "dishonor" H6173)
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.