Word study
Bare
11 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “bare”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “bare” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- עֶרְיָה eryâhnakednesstranslated this way 4 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s H6181Noun · Translated: bare 4, nakedness 1, brandished 1Full study and all 6 verses →
Ezekiel 16:7 I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:22 And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.
- צְחִיחַ tsechîachshining, glaring, surfacetranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s H6706Noun · Translated: bare 4Full study and all 4 verses →
Ezekiel 24:7 For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.
Ezekiel 24:8 In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’
- חָשַׂף châsaphstrip off, strip, make baretranslated this way 2 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s H2834Verb · Translated: bared 3, bare 2Full study and all 10 verses →
Psalm 29:9 The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
Jeremiah 49:10 But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
- עֶרְוָה ervâhnakedness, pudendatranslated this way 1 time of its 37 uses · Strong’s H6172Noun · Translated: nakedness 16, sexual relations 8, shame 3, vulnerable 2Full study and all 34 verses →
Exodus 28:42 Make linen undergarments to cover their bare flesh, extending from waist to thigh.
- עָלַל âlalact severelytranslated this way 1 time of its 19 uses · Strong’s H5953Verb · Translated: torture 2Full study and all 18 verses →
Leviticus 19:10 You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
- מְאוּמָה meûmâhanythingtranslated this way 1 time of its 17 uses · Strong’s H3972Noun · Translated: anything 10, nothing 3, bare 1, fault 1Full study and all 17 verses →
Judges 14:6 and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
- גֶּרֶם gerembone, strength, selftranslated this way 1 time of its 5 uses · Strong’s H1634Noun · Translated: strong 1, bare 1, limbs 1, bones 1Full study and all 5 verses →
2 Kings 9:13 Quickly, each man took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. Then they blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”
- עָרָה ârâhbe naked, baretranslated this way 1 time of its 15 uses · Strong’s H6168Verb · Translated: poured 2, expose 2Full study and all 14 verses →
Isaiah 3:17 the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- עָרַר ârarstrip oneselftranslated this way 1 time of its 3 uses · Strong’s H6209Verb · Translated: stripped 1, bare 1, leveled 1Full study and all 3 verses →
Isaiah 32:11 Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
- גָּלָה gâlâhuncover, removetranslated this way 1 time of its 170 uses · Strong’s H1540Verb · Translated: revealed 14, uncovered 13, exiled 12, sexual relations 11Full study and all 161 verses →
Isaiah 47:2 Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- יָחֵף yâchêphbarefoottranslated this way 1 time of its 5 uses · Strong’s H3182Adjective · Translated: barefoot 4, going bare 1Full study and all 5 verses →
Jeremiah 2:25 You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
Greek words (New Testament)
- εὑρίσκω heurískōI findtranslated this way 1 time of its 172 uses · Strong’s G2147Verb · Translated: found 82, find 49, finds 14, Finding 4Full study and all 163 verses →
2 Peter 3:10 But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.