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# עֶרְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6181

**nakedness** — used 6 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

nakedness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6181/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶרְיָה: n.f. nakedness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6181/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. nakedness;—always abs. ע׳;—ע׳־בֹּשֶׁת Mi 1:11 (in) nakedness, (in) shame (fig. of town Shaphir); of Jerus. עֵרֹם וְע׳ Ez 16:7 + 3 times (v. עֵירֹם sub II. עור); of bow Hb 3:9 (v. II. עור).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bareness (6).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.9/#tree)

עֶרְיָ֤ה תֵעוֹר֙ קַשְׁתֶּ֔ךָ שְׁבֻע֥וֹת מַטּ֖וֹת אֹ֣מֶר סֶ֑לָה נְהָר֖וֹת תְּבַקַּע־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* bareness it.is.made.bare bow your oaths of.arrows a.word Selah rivers you.split.open \[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word. Thou dost cleave the earth with rivers.

[Micah 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.11/#tree)

עִבְרִ֥י לָכֶ֛ם יוֹשֶׁ֥בֶת שָׁפִ֖יר עֶרְיָה־בֹ֑שֶׁת לֹ֤א יָֽצְאָה֙ יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת צַֽאֲנָ֔ן מִסְפַּד֙ בֵּ֣ית הָאֵ֔צֶל בֵּ֣ית הָאֵ֔צֶל יִקַּ֥ח מִכֶּ֖ם עֶמְדָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* pass.on (for yourselves O.inhabitant\[s\] of.Shaphir bareness shame not she.came.forth the.inhabitant\[s\] of.Zaanan the.lament of Beth.Ezel it.will.take from you ground its.standing

*JPS 1917:* Pass ye away, O inhabitant of Saphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the standing-place thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6181.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6181/): 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).