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# מַחְשֹׂף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4286

**a laying bare** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a laying bare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4286/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְשֹׂף: n.m. laying bare, stripping [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4286/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a laying bare, stripping—only cstr. מַחְשׂף הַלָּבָן Gn 30:37 (J) a stripping of the white, i.e. so as to shew wood under the bark.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the peeling (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.37/#tree)

וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֣וֹ יַעֲקֹ֗ב מַקַּ֥ל לִבְנֶ֛ה לַ֖ח וְל֣וּז וְעֶרְמ֑וֹןוַיְפַצֵּ֤ל בָּהֵן֙ פְּצָל֣וֹת לְבָנ֔וֹת מַחְשֹׂף֙ הַלָּבָ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־הַמַּקְלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.took for himself Jacob branch\[es\] of.poplar fresh and almond and plane.tree and he.stripped on them strips white the.peeling of the.white.\[wood\] which \[was\].on the branches

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the rods.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4286/): 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).