erom · naked

What it means

erom (עֵירֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “naked”.

Also nakedness.

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, exposed and ashamed.
2. The state of one left without clothes or protection, in full view.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• naked ×9
• nakedness ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• Ezekiel×6

• Genesis 3:7

  And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths.

• Genesis 3:10

  And he said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I am naked; and I hid.”

• Genesis 3:11

  And he said, “Who told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

• Deuteronomy 28:48

  you will serve your enemies, whom YHWH will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of everything; and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

• Ezekiel 16:7

  A myriad, like the growth of the field, I made you, and you grew and became tall and came to the ornament of ornaments; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

• Ezekiel 16:22

  And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

• Ezekiel 16:39

  And I will give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound and demolish your lofty places, and they will strip you of your garments and take your objects of beauty, and leave you naked and bare.

• Ezekiel 18:7

  and does not oppress anyone, restores his pledge for a debt, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with clothing;

• Ezekiel 18:16

  and does not oppress anyone, does not take a pledge, and commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with clothing;

• Ezekiel 23:29

  And they will deal with you in hatred, and take all your labor, and leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitutions will be uncovered, both your infamy and your prostitutions.