Strong's #6172: `ervah (pronounced er-vaw')
from 6168; nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish):--nakedness, shame, unclean(-ness).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛ervâh
1) nakedness, nudity, shame, pudenda
1a) pudenda (implying shameful exposure)
1b) nakedness of a thing, indecency, improper behaviour
1c) exposed, undefended (figuratively)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H6168
Usage:
This word is used 54 times:
Ezekiel 23:10: "These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword:"
Ezekiel 23:18: "her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from"
Ezekiel 23:29: "and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms."
Hosea 2:9: "and my flax given to cover her nakedness."
