Stripe
פִּצְלָהStrong’s H6479petsalah (pe-tsa-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Petsalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “strips”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.”
Meaning
- Stripe, peeled spot or stripe or strip
How it's translated
- strips 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
פִּצְלָה petsalah · stripe
stripe, peeled spot or stripe or strip
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stripe” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRIPE, noun
[See Strip. It is probable that this word is taken from stripping.]
- A line or long narrow division of any thing, of a different color from the ground as a stripe of red on a green ground; hence, any linear variation of color.
- A strip or long narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as a long stripe sewed upon a garment.
- The weal or long narrow mark discolored by a lash or rod.
- A stroke made with a lash, whip, rod, strap or scourge.“Forty stripes may he give him, and not exceed” Deuteronomy 25:3
All definitions and other forms of “stripe”
- Affliction; punishment; sufferings.
STRIPE, verb transitive
- To make stripes; to form with lines of different colors; to variegate with stripes.
- To stripe; to lash. [Little used.]
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.