The Bible’s use of the word naked

Examples where naked clearly does not mean stark naked


Job 22:6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

    Note they were naked before they were stripped. In other words, due to their poverty they were scantily clothed.

Isaiah 20:4 So the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

    Note that the word naked was inadequate to convey the meaning of stark naked. To this word had to be added ‘barefoot’ and ‘buttocks uncovered’ to convey the full meaning.

Deuteronomy 28:48 therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, . . .

Job 24:7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

Isaiah 58:7 Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him . . . ?

Ezekiel 18:7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Matthew 25:43 I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

1 Corinthians 4:11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

2 Corinthians 11:27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

James 2:15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

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