Nakedness
עֶרְיָהStrong’s H6181eryah (er-yah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Eryah is the Hebrew word usually translated “bareness” and “nakedness”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“I 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.”
Meaning
- Nudity, nakedness
How it's translated
- and bareness 4
- nakedness 1
- bareness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Micah 1
- Habakkuk 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
- Ezekiel 23:29And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
- Micah 1:11Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
- Habakkuk 3:9Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
Hebrew dictionary
עֶרְיָה eryah · nakedness
nudity, nakedness
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.