arom · naked

What it means

arom (עָרוֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “naked”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Without clothes, or exposed.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×6
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×4
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Micah×1

• Genesis 2:25

  And the two of them, the man and his wife, were naked, and they were not ashamed.

• 1 Samuel 19:24

  He too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel, and fell down naked all that day and all the night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

• Job 1:21

  He said, “Naked I came out of the belly of my mother, and naked I will return there. YHWH gave, and YHWH took; may the name of YHWH be blessed.”

• Job 22:6

  For you took pledges from your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

• Job 24:7

  Naked they spend the night without clothing, and they have no covering in the cold.

• Job 24:10

  Naked they go about without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaf.

• Job 26:6

  Naked is Sheol before him, and Abaddon has no covering.

• Ecclesiastes 5:15

  As he came out from the womb of his mother, naked he will go away again as he came; and nothing will he take from his toil that he may carry in his hand.

• Isaiah 20:2

  at that time YHWH spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from your loins, and take off your sandals from your feet.” And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

• Isaiah 20:3

  And YHWH said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years, a sign and a wonder against Egypt and against Cush,

• Isaiah 20:4

  so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered: the nakedness of Egypt.

• Isaiah 58:7

  Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and to bring the wandering afflicted home; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

• Hosea 2:3

  or else I will strip her naked and set her out as on the day she was born, and make her like the wilderness, and leave her like a land that is dry, and kill her with thirst.

• Amos 2:16

  And the stoutest of heart among the mighty men will flee naked on that day, declares YHWH.

• Micah 1:8

  Because of this I will lament and wail; I will go barefoot and naked; I will make a lament like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

And 1 more times.