Barefoot
יָחֵףStrong’s H3182yacheph (ya-cheph)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yacheph is the Hebrew word usually translated “barefoot” and “from barefoot”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.”
Meaning
- Barefootbareness, being unshod (subst)
How it's translated
- and barefoot 3
- barefoot 1
- from barefoot 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- 2 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 20:2At 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 20:3And 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 20:4So 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.
- Jeremiah 2:25Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Hebrew dictionary
יָחֵף yacheph · barefoot
1) barefoot 1a) bareness, being unshod (subst)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “barefoot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BA'REFOOT, adjective
[See Foot.]
All definitions and other forms of “barefoot”
BA'REFOOT, adjective
or adverb With the feet bare; as, to dance barefoot
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.