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Genesis 9:22

וַ יַּרְא חָם אֲבִי כְנַעַן אֵת עֶרְוַת אָבִיו וַ יַּגֵּד לִ שְׁנֵי אֶחָיו בַּ חוּץ
And Warm, father of Humbled, is seeing אֶת-the naked-one of his father and is fronting345 to his two brothers outside.
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Strong’s #5046, nagad. To front, to stand opposite. A primitive root; properly, to front, i.e. Stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; specifically, to expose. The idea is apparently opposite to kachad (#3582) to hide, conceal.

“…and their miss, like Sodom, they have fronted [nagad], they have not concealed [kachad] it.” Isaiah 3:9 literal

To see the naked-one. This is an enigma like “to know his woman” (see note on Genesis 4:1).