nakedness
er.yah denotes exposure without clothing, including shameful public bareness and a bow laid bare.
The dominant use describes persons left without clothing or exposed in shame: the Ezekiel passages pair it with being “naked and bare,” and Micah places it in a scene of shame. A rarer use applies the same exposure language to a bow being laid bare.
Senses in use
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Unclothed or shameful exposure · dominant
In Ezekiel 16:7 and Ezekiel 16:22, the feminine singular absolute noun occurs in descriptions of a person who is “naked and bare.” In Ezekiel 16:39 and Ezekiel 23:29, removal of clothing and possessions leaves the person “naked and bare”; Micah 1:11 similarly places the term in the phrase rendered “in nakedness of shame.”
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A weapon uncovered · rare
In Habakkuk 3:9, the feminine singular absolute noun occurs with the bow; the APB renders the clause, “Your bow is laid bare,” applying exposure language to the weapon rather than to a person.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the relevant clauses with “naked and bare,” and in Micah 1:11 with “nakedness of shame.” In Habakkuk 3:9 it renders the bow as “laid bare”; these are verse-level renderings rather than word-by-word alignments.