עָרוֹם
ʻârôwm · H6174 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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naked
State in which humans are either without clothes or insufficiently dressed; often associated with poverty or shame
ExamplesGenesis 2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.
1 Samuel 19:24 He also stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
Job 1:21 He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
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covering
Literally: naked; hence: state in which all information is shared about an object, as if it is naked and fully visible to outsiders
ExamplesJob 26:6 “Sheol is naked before Him, And Abaddon has no covering.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- רָאָהto see 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָהַגto lead 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁאוֹלworld of the dead 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֶּגֶדgarment, clothes 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- γυμνός gymnós · G1131 · naked, not hidden, easily known
- Greek γυμνός renders Hebrew עָרוֹם directly across literal and figurative nakedness contexts with full semantic overlap.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Undress002003001017
- עָרוֹם describes being naked, unclothed, as of Adam and Eve before the fall, Saul lying stripped and naked among the prophets, and Job's declaration that he came naked from his mother's womb.
- Know002004002007
- The word's use in the garden narrative is closely bound to the account of the couple's eyes being opened to know they were naked, though this facet is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which describe the state of nakedness itself.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6174. arom עָרֹם עָרוֺם, adjective naked (perhaps secondary form from עֵירֹם Ew§ 163 c…
עָרֹם עָרוֺם, adjective naked (perhaps secondary form from עֵירֹם Ew§ 163 c Sta§ 327 a; or from √ עָרָה, q. v. ); — absolute עָרוֺם Amo 2:16 Amo 2:8t., עָרֹם 1Sa 19:24 1Sa 19:3t.; feminine עֲרֻמָּה Hos 2:5; plural עֲרוּמִּים Gen 2:25; Job 22:6; — naked Gen 2:25 (J) 1Sa 19:14; Hos 2:5; adverb. (Ges§ 118n) with הָלַךְ Isa 20:2-3, Isa 20:4; Mic 1:8, compare Amo 2:16; Job 24:7, Job 24:10; = substantive concrete Isa 58:7; Job 22:6; = without possessions Job 1:21 (twice in verse) = Ecc 5:14; of Sh®°ôl, open before ׳י Job 26:6.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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