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title: חָשַׂף — strip off · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָשַׂף (2834), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: strip off. BDB 1906: vb. strip off, strip, make bare. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָשַׂף

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«חָשַׂף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **strip off** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 11 times · **Key:** 2834 · **BDB:** חָשַׂף

### Glosses

draw (2); I.will.strip.bare (1); I.will.strip.off (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָשַׂף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2834/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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