To strip
פָּשַׁטStrong’s H6584pashat (pa-shat)
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pashat is the Hebrew word usually translated “made a raid”, “strip” and “strip off”. It appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;”
Meaning
- To strip, invade, strip off, make a dash, raid, spread out(Qal) · (Piel) to strip · (Hiphil) · (Hithpael) to strip oneself of
How it's translated
- and they made a raid 4
- to strip 3
- and he will strip off 2
- and he stripped off 2
- they made a raid 2
- they had made a raid 2
- and they stripped 1
- and he will skin 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 9
- 1 Chronicles 4
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Ezekiel 4
- Leviticus 3
- Judges 3
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 1:6And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
- Leviticus 6:11And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
- Leviticus 16:23And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
- Numbers 20:26And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
- Numbers 20:28And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
- Judges 9:33And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.
All 42 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
פָּשַׁט pashat · to strip
1) to strip, invade, strip off, make a dash, raid, spread out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to strip off, put off 1a2) to put off (one's shelter), make a dash 1b) (Piel) to strip 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to strip of 1c2) to strip off 1c3) to flay 1d) (Hithpael) to strip oneself of
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.