Hebrew

To strip

עָרַרStrong’s H6209

arar (a-rar)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Arar is the Hebrew word usually translated “stripped bare”, “strip yourself” and “utterly”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.”

Isaiah 23:13 KJV

Meaning

To strip, make bare, strip oneself(Qal) to strip, strip oneself · (Poel) to lay bare · (Hithpalpel) to be utterly stripped, be utterly laid bare · (Pilpel) break

How it's translated

they stripped bare 1
and strip yourself 1
utterly 1
it will be demolished 1

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

Where it's used most

Isaiah 2
Jeremiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

עָרַר arar · to strip

1) to strip, make bare, strip oneself 1a) (Qal) to strip, strip oneself 1b) (Poel) to lay bare 1c) (Hithpalpel) to be utterly stripped, be utterly laid bare 1d) (Pilpel) break

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.