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Lexicon :: Strong's H6172 - ʿervâ

Aa
עֶרְוָה
Transliteration
ʿervâ
Pronunciation
er-vaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1692b

Strong’s Definitions

עֶרְוָה ʻervâh, er-vaw'; from H6168; nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish):—nakedness, shame, unclean(-ness).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x

The KJV translates Strong's H6172 in the following manner: nakedness (50x), nakedness (with H1320) (1x), shame (1x), unclean (1x), uncleanness (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x
The KJV translates Strong's H6172 in the following manner: nakedness (50x), nakedness (with H1320) (1x), shame (1x), unclean (1x), uncleanness (1x).

  1. nakedness, nudity, shame, pudenda

    1. pudenda (implying shameful exposure)

    2. nakedness of a thing, indecency, improper behaviour

    3. exposed, undefended (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶרְוָה ʻervâh, er-vaw'; from H6168; nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish):—nakedness, shame, unclean(-ness).
STRONGS H6172: Abbreviations
עֶרְוָה 54 noun feminine nakedness, pudenda; — absolute ע׳ Exodus 28:42; Leviticus 18:6; usually construct עֶרְוַת Genesis 9:22 +, suffix עֶרְוָֽֽֽתְךָ Exodus 20:23 (Ginsb), Leviticus 18:10; עֶרְוָתֵךְ Isaiah 47:3 +; ת֯וֺ Leviticus 20:17, תָ֯הּ Leviticus 18:7 +; suffix 3rd person feminine plural עֶרְוָתָן Leviticus 18:9; Leviticus 18:10; —
1. pudenda, of man רָאָה ע׳ implying shameful exposure Genesis 9:22, 23 (J); mostly of woman: figurative of Jerusalem (with רָאָה) Lamentations 1:3; Ezekiel 16:37; usually with ׃ נלה literal תִּגָּלֶה ע׳ i.e. be exposed to view Exodus 20:23 (Ginsb; van d. H. Exodus 20:26; E), so, as shameful punishment, figurative of Egypt Isaiah 20:4 (gloss according to Du Che Di-Kit), Babylonian Isaiah 47:3, of Jerusalem Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:10, 29 (עֶרְוַת זְנוּנַיִךְ; all three object of active verb); chiefly euphemism for cohabitation, גִּלָּה ע׳ Leviticus 18:6 + (see גלה Pi. 1 a; figurative of Jerusalem (verb passive) Ezekiel 16:36; רָאָה ע׳ in same meaning Leviticus 20:17 (twice in verse) (H; of both sexes); ע׳ also Leviticus 18:8, 10, 16 (H); כִּסָּה ע׳ cover nakedness Genesis 9:23 (J), Exodus 28:42 (P; בְּשַׂר ע׳), Hosea 2:11 (figurative of Israel), Ezekiel 16:8 (of Jerusalem); reviling words are אִמֶּ֑ךָ לְבשֶׁת ע׳ 1 Samuel 20:30 (compare DoughtyArab. Deserta i. 269).
2. עֶרְוַת דָּבָר nakedness of a thing, i.e. probably indecency, improper behaviour Deuteronomy 23:15; Deuteronomy 24:1 (see Dr).
3. figurative הָאָרֶץ ע׳ Genesis 42:9, 12 (E), i.e. its exposed, undefended parts (Arabic bdb078901).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

9:22; 9:22; 9:23; 9:23; 42:9; 42:12

Exodus

20:23; 20:23; 20:26; 28:42; 28:42

Leviticus

18:6; 18:6; 18:7; 18:8; 18:9; 18:10; 18:10; 18:10; 18:16; 20:17; 20:17

Deuteronomy

23:15; 24:1

1 Samuel

20:30

Isaiah

20:4; 47:3; 47:3

Lamentations

1:3

Ezekiel

16:8; 16:36; 16:37; 16:37; 23:10; 23:29

Hosea

2:11

H6172

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6172 matches the Hebrew עֶרְוָה (ʿervâ),
which occurs 54 times in 40 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:22 - And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:23 - And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:12 - And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:26 - And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:42

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:42 - And you are to make them linen trousers, covering their bodies from the middle to the knee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:6 - You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:7 - You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:8 - And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:10 - You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:11 - Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:12 - You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13 - You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:14 - You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:15 - Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:16 - You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:17 - You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:18 - And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:19 - And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:11 - And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 - And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:18 - And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19 - And you may not have sex connection with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for they are his near relations: their sin will be on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:20 - And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:21 - And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 - For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:1 - If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:30 - Then Saul was moved to wrath against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of an evil and uncontrolled woman, have I not seen how you have given your love to the son of Jesse, to your shame and the shame of your mother?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:3 - The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:8 - Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:8 - Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:37 - For this cause I will get together all your lovers with whom you have taken your pleasure, and all those to whom you have given your love, with all those who were hated by you; I will even make them come together against you on every side, and I will have you uncovered before them so that they may see your shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:10 - In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:10 - By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be unveiled and without clothing: and the shame of your loose behaviour will be uncovered, your evil designs and your loose ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:9 - So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.
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