Naked
עָרוֹםStrong’s H6174arom (a-rom)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arom is the Hebrew word usually translated “naked”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”
Meaning
- Naked, bare
How it's translated
- naked 14
- and naked 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 5
- Isaiah 4
- Genesis 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Hosea 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 19:24And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
- Job 1:21And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
- Job 22:6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- Job 24:7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
- Job 24:10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
- Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Hebrew dictionary
עָרוֹם arom · naked
naked, bare
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.