To strip
נְתַרStrong’s H5426netar (ne-tar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Netar is the Aramaic word usually translated “strip off”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:”
Meaning
- To strip off(Aphel) to strip off
How it's translated
- strip off 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
נְתַר netar · to strip
1) to strip off 1a) (Aphel) to strip off
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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.