To peel
מוֹרָטStrong’s H4803morat (mo-rat)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Morat is the Hebrew word usually translated “polished”, “it will become bare” and “smooth skinned”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.”
Meaning
- (Pual) scoured, polished, smooth
How it's translated
- polished 3
- it will become bare 2
- and smooth skinned 2
- it has been polished 2
- and i pulled out 1
- and i pulled out beard their 1
- to made bare 1
- to polish 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 5
- Isaiah 3
- Leviticus 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Ezra 1
- Nehemiah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:41And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
- 1 Kings 7:45And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
- Ezra 9:3And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
- Nehemiah 13:25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
- Isaiah 18:2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
- Isaiah 18:7In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹרָט morat · to peel
(Pual) scoured, polished, smooth A grammatical form of ma.rat (מָרַט "to smooth" H4803)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “peel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PEEL, verb transitive
[Latin pilo, to pull off hair and to pillage; pilus, the hair.]
- To strip off skin, bark or rind without a cutting instrument; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin; to bark; to flay; to decorticate.
- In a general sense, to remove the skin, bark or rind, even with an instrument.
- To strip; to plunder; to pillage; as, to peel a province or conquered people.
All definitions and other forms of “peel”
PEEL, noun
[Latin pellis.]
The skin or rind of any thing; as the peel of an orange.
PEEL, noun
[Latin pala; pello; Eng. shovel, from shove; or from spreading.]
A kind of wooden shovel used by bakers, with a broad palm and long handle; hence, in popular use in America, any large fire-shovel.
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.