The Bible’s use of the word naked

    Examples where naked clearly does not mean stark naked


    Job 22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, 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 shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with [their] 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 shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness . . .

    Job 24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.

    Isaiah 58:7 [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him . . . ?

    Ezekiel 18:7 And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

    Matthew 25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

    Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

    1 Corinthians 4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace

    2 Corinthians 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

    James 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,


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