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To strip

קָסַסStrong’s H7082

qasas (qa-sas)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Qasas is the Hebrew word usually translated “it strip off”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.”
Ezekiel 17:9 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Poel) to strip off, cut off
How it's translated
  • will it strip off 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    קָסַס qasas · to strip

    (Poel) to strip off, cut 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 ]

    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.