עֶרְוָה
er.vah
“nakedness”
Definition
nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish)
from H6168 (עָרָה);
- nakedness, nudity, shame, pudenda 1a) pudenda (implying shameful exposure) 1b) nakedness of a thing, indecency, improper behaviour 1c) exposed, undefended (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: ar.vah (*עַרְוָה *"dishonor" H6173)
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
עֶרְוָה appears 38 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
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Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.
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