chasaph (to strip)

Meaning

To strip, strip off, lay bare, make bare, draw out(Qal)

How it's translated

and it stripped bare 1
and uncovered of 1
and to scoop 1
strip off 1
he has bared 1
i will strip off 1
i will strip bare 1
bared 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Isaiah 4
Jeremiah 2
Psalms 1
Ezekiel 1
Joel 1
Haggai 1

6 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Isaiah 20:4So 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 30:14And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
Isaiah 47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Isaiah 52:10The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Jeremiah 13:26Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
Jeremiah 49:10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

All 10 verses, by book

Psalms 1: 29:9
Isaiah 4: 20:4 30:14 47:2 52:10
Jeremiah 2: 13:26 49:10
Ezekiel 1: 4:7
Joel 1: 1:7
Haggai 1: 2:16

Hebrew dictionary

חָשַׂף chasaph · to strip

1) to strip, strip off, lay bare, make bare, draw out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to strip off 1a2) to strip, lay bare 1a3) to draw (water), skim, take from the surface

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “strip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

STRIP, verb transitive

[G., to strip to flay, to stripe or streak, to graze upon, to swerve, ramble or stroll. Latin ]

To pull or tear off, as a covering; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a mans back.
To deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark; to strip a man of his clothes.
To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; as, to strip a man of his possessions.
To divest; as, to strip one of his rights and privileges.

All definitions and other forms of “strip”

To rob; to plunder; as, robbers strip a house.
To bereave; to deprive; to impoverish; as a man stripped of his fortune.
To deprive; to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means; as cattle strip the ground of its herbage.
To pull off husks; to husk; as, to strip maiz, or the ears of maiz.
To press out the last milk at a milking.
To unrig; as, to strip a ship.
To pare off the surface of land in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.
To pull or take off; as, to strip off a covering; to strip off a mask or disguise.
To cast off. [Not in use.]
To separate from something connected. [Not in use.]

STRIP, noun

[G., a stripe, a streak.]

A narrow piece, comparatively long; as a strip of cloth.
Waste, in a legal sense; destruction of fences, buildings, timber, etc.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.