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title: מַחְשֹׂף — a laying bare · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַחְשֹׂף (4286), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: a laying bare. BDB 1906: n.m. laying bare, stripping. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַחְשֹׂף

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«מַחְשֹׂף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a laying bare** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 4286 · **BDB:** מַחְשֹׂף

### Glosses

the.peeling (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַחְשֹׂף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4286/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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