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# עָרוֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6174

**naked** — used 16 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/1506/6174/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרוֹם: adj. naked [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6174/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. naked (perhaps secondary form from עֵירֹם Ew§ 163 c Sta§ 327 a; or from √ עָרָה, q.v.);—abs. עָרוֹם Am 2:16 + 8 times, עָרֹם 1 S 19:24 + 3 times; f. עֲרֻמָּה Ho 2:5; pl. עֲרוּמִּים Gn 2:25 Jb 22:6;—naked Gn 2:25 (J) 1 S 19:24 Ho 2:5; adverb. (Ges§ 118 n) c. הָלַךְ Is 20:2, 3, 4 Mi 1:8, cf. Am 2:16 Jb 24:7, 10; = subst. concr. Is 58:7 Jb 22:6; = without possessions Jb 1:21(×2) = Ec 5:14; of Sheʾôl. open before י׳ Jb 26:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 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: naked (13); \[is\] naked (1); \[the\] naked (1).

## In the verses

[Job 24:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.10/#tree)

עָר֣וֹם הִ֭לְּכוּ בְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וּ֝רְעֵבִ֗ים נָ֣שְׂאוּ עֹֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* naked they.go.about not clothing and hungry they.carry a.sheaf

*JPS 1917:* So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves;

[Job 22:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.6/#tree)

כִּֽי־תַחְבֹּ֣ל אַחֶ֣יךָ חִנָּ֑ם וּבִגְדֵ֖י עֲרוּמִּ֣ים תַּפְשִֽׁיט׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.have.held.in.pledge brothers your without.cause and the.garments of.naked.\[people\] you.have.stripped.off

*JPS 1917:* For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6174.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6174/): 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).