Bare
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; - used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
(2): (n.) Surface; body; substance.
(3): (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
(4): (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
(5): (a.) Threadbare; much worn.
(6): (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
(7): (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
(8): (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.
(9): of Bear
(10): (a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
(11): (a.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
(12): Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
King James Dictionary [2]
BARE, a. This word is from opening, separating, stripping.
1. Naked, without covering as, the arm is bare the trees are bare. 2. With the head uncovered, from respect. 3. Plain simple unadorned without the polish of refined manners. 4. Laid open to view detected no longer concealed. 5. Poor destitute indigent empty unfurnished.
I have made Esau bare. Jer.xlix.
6. Alone unaccompanied. 7. Thread-bare much worn. 8. Wanting clothes or supplied with garments.
Under bare poles, at sea, signifies having no sail set.
It is often followed by of as, the country is bare of money.
BARE, See Bare, adj.
To strip off the covering to make naked as, to bare the breast.
BARE, the old preterit of bear, now bore.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"naked," is once translated "bare," 1—Corinthians 15:37 , where, used of grain, the meaning is made clearer by translating the phrase by "a bare grain," RV. See Naked.
