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# stripe

noun (stripe, stripes)

«stripe» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A stripe is a long thin line of colour on something, like on a zebra or a flag. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#m1)
2. A stripe on a uniform can show a person's rank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#m2)
3. A stripe can also be a blow with a whip or stick as a punishment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#m3)

### In the lessons

Maths: a thing counted on flags, shirts, animals or patterns; patterns of stripes that repeat. Science: zebras and tigers have stripes for camouflage. Everyday: a striped shirt, a stripy jumper, the stars and stripes (the US flag).

### Examples

- The flag has 13 stripes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x1)
- Each shirt has 5 blue stripes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x2)
- A zebra has many black stripes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x3)
- She painted 4 red stripes and 3 white stripes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x4)
- No two zebras have the same stripes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x5)
- The pattern goes red stripe, white stripe, red stripe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x6)
- A tiger's stripes help it hide in tall grass. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x7)
- The king ordered a hundred stripes to be laid on her tender body; she sighed a long sigh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/#x8)

### Note

Countable: a stripe, stripes; adjective striped or stripy. The thing counted; «each shirt has 5 stripes» is a rate, so stripes = shirts × 5. Trap: stripe is not strip.

## In Jewish tradition

"Stripe" means a blow or lash, the mark made on the body by a beating. In Proverbs stripes are a punishment for fools, and a wise man learns more from a rebuke than a fool does from a hundred of them.

**Interpretation.** "Stripe for stripe" is part of "an eye for an eye." The rabbis taught that it means paying fair money for the harm done. The limit of forty lashes keeps a punishment from becoming cruel, and later tradition gave thirty-nine so as never to go over.

### Examples

- burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. (Torah EXO.21.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stripe/#x1)
- Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should be dishonoured before thine eyes. (Torah DEU.25.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stripe/#x2)
- Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. (Writings PRO.19.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stripe/#x3)
- Sharp wounds cleanse away evil; so do stripes that reach the inward parts. (Writings PRO.20.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stripe/#x4)
- A rebuke entereth deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool. (Writings PRO.17.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stripe/#x5)

### Note

Countable: a stripe, stripes; adjective striped or stripy. The thing counted; «each shirt has 5 stripes» is a rate, so stripes = shirts × 5. Trap: stripe is not strip.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «stripe» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stripe/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«stripe» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/stripe.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «stripe» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stripe/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«stripe» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/stripe.html) on Mova free.