This word denotes (1) absolute nakedness (Gen. 2:25; Job 1:21; Eccl. 5:15; Micah 1:8; Amos 2:16); (2) being poorly clad (Isa. 58:7; James 2:15). It denotes also (3) the state of one who has “laid aside his loose outer garment (Lat. nudus), and appears” clothed only in a long tunic or under robe worn next the skin (1 Sam. 19:24; Isa. 47:3; comp. Mark 14:52; John 21:7). It is used “figuratively, meaning “being discovered” or “made manifest” (Job” “26:6; Heb. 4:13). In Ex. 32:25 the expression “the people were” “naked” (A.V.) is more correctly rendered in the Revised Version” “the people were broken loose, i.e., had fallen into a state of” “lawlessness and insubordination. In 2 Chr. 28:19 the words “he” “made Judah naked” (A.V.), but Revised Version “he had dealt” “wantonly in Judah,” mean “he had permitted Judah to break loose” “from all the restraints of religion.”

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