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# עֵירֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5903

**naked** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

naked [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5903/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵירֹם: adj. naked nakedness adj. n.abstr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5903/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. and n.\[m.\] 1. naked; 2. nakedness ( √ עור Ew 423, 426 Ges§ 85 t Sta§§ 295, 327 a; \> √ ערם (not Heb. in this sense) BaNB § 27 g Köii. 84, 120);—abs. עֵירֹם Gn 3:10, 11 + 4 times, עֵרֹם Ez 16:7 + 2 times Ez; pl. עֵירֻמִּים Gn 3:7;— adj. naked Gn 3:7, 10, 11 (all pred.); as subst. concr. Ez 18:7, 16. n.abstr. nakedness Dt 28:48; ע׳ וְעֶרְיָה nakedness and bareness (= naked and bare, of personified Jerusalem), Ez 16:7, 22, 39; 23:29.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: nakedness (4); \[were\] naked (2); naked (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 3:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.10/#tree)

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אֶת־קֹלְךָ֥ שָׁמַ֖עְתִּי בַּגָּ֑ן וָאִירָ֛א כִּֽי־עֵירֹ֥ם אָנֹ֖כִי וָאֵחָבֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* and he.said (et) sound your I.heard in the garden and I.was.afraid (dm) \[was\].naked I and I.hid.myself

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.'

[Genesis 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.7/#tree)

וַתִּפָּקַ֙חְנָה֙ עֵינֵ֣י שְׁנֵיהֶ֔ם וַיֵּ֣דְע֔וּ כִּ֥י עֵֽירֻמִּ֖ם הֵ֑ם וַֽיִּתְפְּרוּ֙ עֲלֵ֣ה תְאֵנָ֔ה וַיַּעֲשׂ֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם חֲגֹרֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.opened the.eyes of both.of.them and they.knew (dm).that \[were\].naked they and they.sewed.together leafage of.a.fig.tree and they.made for themselves loin.coverings

*JPS 1917:* And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5903.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5903/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).