I did a word search in e-sword on the word naked and these are the results:
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Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Genesis 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
Exodus 32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
1 Samuel 19:24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
2 Chronicles 28:15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
2 Chronicles 28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
Job 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Job 22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Job 26:6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Ecclesiastes 5:15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Isaiah 20:2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
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.
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; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Lamentations 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
Ezekiel 16:7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Ezekiel 16:39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
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;
Ezekiel 18:16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
Ezekiel 23:29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Hosea 2:3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Amos 2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Micah 1:11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
Habakkuk 3:9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
Matthew 25:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Matthew 25:38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
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.
Matthew 25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Mark 14:51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
Mark 14:52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
John 21:7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.
Acts 19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
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 5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
James 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Revelation 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Yes, there are a lot of references to the work "naked" and "nakedness" in the bible.
Had you read the article Naked Definitions? It touches on the three basic Hebrew words Arom, Eyrom and Ervah.
Arom means "naked". Simply nude. A physical thing that we are when we were created and born. Nothing more. That was the word that was used to describe Adam and Eve when they were "Arom" or naked and unashamed.
Eyrom also means "naked" but we can imagine that they were "nekid and up to no good" type of naked. That was the word Adam used when he said "I was afraid because I was "Eyrom" (naked) and so I hid." And God said, "Who told you that you were "Eyrom"?
Ervah means "nakedness" which was used to describe something negative too, such as "looking upon someones nakedness". It describes a vulnerability of someone. Nakedness of Noah when he was drunk, nakedness of the priests if they were seen up in a high place (stairs) praying in a prostrate position, and so on.
None of the "nakedness" episodes were negative because of the physical nudity. The nakedness was the result of the sin that was associated with it or the associations of other weaknesses.
The reason that the priests could not let their "nakedness" be seen due to being in a high place (top of stairs to a temple" was because it would remind the people of their previous worship life in Egypt. Sex was part of the Egyptian worship.
But it was not cammanded that the Isrealites refrain from being up on ladders, on rocks, or other high places where someone might see their nude bottoms (if they were nude under there) because that was a natural everyday issue, not related to the earlier worship practices.
Note that the other naked situations in the bible were either someone being nude, (no problems associated with it) or someone had nudity forced on them, such as in slavery.
You can read the three part article at the link above.
Thanks for the scriptures. You may now want to find out the meaning behind those scriptures and see where it takes you.
By the way, you will find in the New Testament (from Greek) you will find the work "naked" referes to being naked. There is no breakdown of different types. Like our English language, you will have to understand the context to get the true meaning. But on the other hand, the greek words for love is in three different words where in Hebrew, I think there is only one word.
There was likely no problem with folks looking up their skirts while working on rocks or ladders, because I'll bet in most cases they would be stripped naked for such work.
It seems that folks back them took off the robe gear that most of them wore, when doing dirty, sweaty work or work where the robes might get caught. Peter was naked working on his boat. Very likely, all his brothers were, too. The only reason Peter got dressed was to be dressed when he got to shore. The others likely stayed naked. They were close enough to shore to talk to Jesus.
The female lover in Songs of Solomon got her breasts tan when her brothers forced her to work in the vineyards. She was very likely topless and possibly naked. The native women of Vietnam still work in their villages topless. I've been there and seen them.
Clothing used to be expensive and needed to be protected because it was scarce and expensive to replace. Over the centuries, the devil has got us into thinking that we should cover our bodies. He's made clothing cheap to do that. It also helps the poor. They don't have to run around naked any more.
The native women of Vietnam still work in their villages topless. I've been there and seen them.
Well Ralph,
Spunky may be looking native soon. Its 80 in Florida and I am loving my time in my backyard as natural as I can be. Who knows, maybe by the time Feb 6 comes along for my next photo diet check I may turn light brown.
I was talking to my roomie about be nude and the people in the Bible. I brought up the Isiah was order to go nude for 3 yrs. She replied that it was because of/he sinned.
God did not tell Isaiah to go naked because he had sinned. God told Isaiah to go naked to show Egypt and Ethopiah what Assyria would do to them if they did not listen to Him.
Isaiah's nudity was not sinful, easily known because God Himself will never instruct us to sin. Isaiah's nudity was also not punishment- prophets were often nude, were actually known as prophets by being nude, and it would not have even been unusual for Isaiah to have been naked previousely, more than likely.
It most likely was unusual for someone to be naked for as long as Isaiah was though, unless they were slaves, or very poor. THAT was the point. Even a nudist will object to being forced to be naked, and that was what would happen to the Egyptians and Ethopians if they didn't straighten up.
God was using Isaiah as a example to those people: without reform they would be taken prisoner and be naked, i.e. slaves. It was a warning.
There is no indication in this passage or any other that I have read that being naked was sinful. People were naked when they worked, when they were slaves, or when they were poor. Public nudity was much more common then than it is now, and was much more accepted.
The only time that nudity is consided a problem in Scripture there is always an objectionable activity associated with it. The nudity isn't the problem, the activity or attitude is the problem. The nudity simply is an aspect of that problem.
I want to go on and on, but Myra just came in and told me it's past my bed time, so I have to go.
It's an interesting subject though, and I think we should continue. I'll try to check back sooner than 2 or 3 days from now, like I have been doing lately. Man, you miss alot when you do that!!
Kevin pretty much covered it all, ('scuze the pun) and may I reiterate that God did not punish Isaiah at all. God does not punish people by making go nude in public. Your friend has not read the scriptures.
I believe at times like this, you may want to have a bible handy, make sure YOU read it first, then go to the scriptures and do a study together on it.
But be careful, do NOT go to the scriptures to prove yourself right. That is never the reason to go to the scriptures. As I have said in my articles and will continue here, I do not proclaim that I know the all the truth. In fact, that is the VERY reason I started this forum, to let others come and help each other find the truth. And that is what you are doing when you asked about Isaiah.
Be ready to give an answer to the faith that is within you.
