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# חָשַׂף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2834

**strip off** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

strip off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2834/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָשַׂף: vb. strip off, strip, make bare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2834/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. strip off, strip, make bare— Pf. חָשַׂף Is 52:10, חֲשָׂפָהּ Jo 1:7, חָשַׂפְתִּי Je 13:26; 49:10; Impf. וַיֶּחֱשֹׂף ψ 29:9; Imv. fs. חֶשְׂפִּי־ Is 47:2; Inf. abs. חָשׂף Jo 1:7; cstr. לַחְשֹׂף Is 30:14 Hg 2:16; Pt. pass. חֲשׂוּפָה Ez 4:7, חֲשׂוּפַי Is 20:4 (pl. cstr.? cf. infr.).— strip off, expose oneself by removing (obj. שֹׁבֶל, flowing skirt, train) Is 47:2 of Babylon, personified as queen (‖ גַּלִּי שׁוֹק), ח׳ שׁוּלַיִךְ עַל־פָּנַיִךְ Je 13:26. strip, lay bare, fig. of י׳ Is 52:10 obj. זְרוֹעַ קדשׁו; of prophet, Ez 4:7 (but Co del. v. as interpol.); obj. pers. Je 49:10 (‖ גִּלֵּיתִי); חָשׂף חשׂפהּ Jo 1:7 of locusts stripping fig-tree; חֲשׂוּפַי שֵׁת Is 20:4 (pt. either sg. coll., with formative ending ַי, De LagSe i, 19 (cf. 69), BN 192; or pl. cstr., v. Ges§ 87, 1 c.); ח׳ יְעָרוֹת ψ 29:9 of voice of י׳ (i.e. a storm) stripping forests. draw (water) Is 30:14; (wine) Hg 2:16; properly take from the surface, skim.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: draw (2); I will strip bare (1); I will strip off (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 13:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.26/#tree)

וְגַם־אֲנִ֛י חָשַׂ֥פְתִּי שׁוּלַ֖יִךְ עַל־פָּנָ֑יִךְ וְנִרְאָ֖ה קְלוֹנֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and also I I.will.strip.off of.your.robe the.skirts over face your and it.will.be.visible shame your

*JPS 1917:* Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.

[Isaiah 47:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/#tree)

קְחִ֥י רֵחַ֖יִם וְטַ֣חֲנִי קָ֑מַח גַּלִּ֨י צַמָּתֵ֧ךְ חֶשְׂפִּי־שֹׁ֛בֶל גַּלִּי־שׁ֖וֹק עִבְרִ֥י נְהָרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* take a.hand-mill and grind flour uncover veil your strip.off a.skirt uncover a.leg pass.through rivers

*JPS 1917:* Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2834.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2834/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).