Strong H2834חָשַׂף

to strip

Transliteration
châώaph
Pronunciation
khaw-saf'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to strip {off} that {is} generally to make naked (for exertion or in {disgrace}) to drain away or bail up (a liquid): - make {bare} {clean} {discover} draw {out} {take} uncover.

Detailed definition

1) to strip, strip off, lay bare, make bare, draw out
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to strip off
1a2) to strip, lay bare
1a3) to draw (water), skim, take from the surface

In the Bible

Strong H2834 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • make3
  • bare2
  • uncover2
  • discover1
  • discovereth1
  • draw1
  • take1

First verses

  1. Psalms 29:9
    The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
  2. Isaiah 20:4
    So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
  3. Isaiah 30:14
    And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
  4. Isaiah 47:2
    Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
  5. Isaiah 52:10
    The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
  6. Jeremiah 13:26
    Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
  7. Jeremiah 49:10
    But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
  8. Ezekiel 4:7
    Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
  9. Joel 1:7
    He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
  10. Haggai 2:16
    Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
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