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To strip

פָּשַׁטStrong’s H6584

pashat (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;”
Genesis 37:23 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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 ]

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; as, to strip a man of his possessions.
  4. To divest; as, to strip one of his rights and privileges.
All definitions and other forms of “strip”
  1. To rob; to plunder; as, robbers strip a house.
  2. To bereave; to deprive; to impoverish; as a man stripped of his fortune.
  3. To deprive; to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means; as cattle strip the ground of its herbage.
  4. To pull off husks; to husk; as, to strip maiz, or the ears of maiz.
  5. To press out the last milk at a milking.
  6. To unrig; as, to strip a ship.
  7. To pare off the surface of land in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.
  8. To pull or take off; as, to strip off a covering; to strip off a mask or disguise.
  9. To cast off. [Not in use.]
  10. To separate from something connected. [Not in use.]

STRIP, noun

[G., a stripe, a streak.]

  1. A narrow piece, comparatively long; as a strip of cloth.
  2. 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.