עֶרְוָה H6172
- Home gloss
- bareness
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- nakedness
- Note
- Noun of עָרָה "be bare." "Naked" is עֵירֹם's, "nude" עָרוֹם's. With גָּלָה "uncover," the incest laws (Lev 18). See the note at 9:22
- Rulings
- 2, 94
Occurrences (3)
Genesis 9
- 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the bareness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
- 9:23 And Shem and Japheth took the cloak and put it on the shoulder of the two of them, and went backward and covered the bareness of their father; and their faces were backward, and the bareness of their father they did not see.
- 9:23 And Shem and Japheth took the cloak and put it on the shoulder of the two of them, and went backward and covered the bareness of their father; and their faces were backward, and the bareness of their father they did not see.