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חָשַׂף

châsaph · H2834 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to strip off, to bare, to uncover

    Causative action by which humans, deities, or animals remove an object that thinly covers another object

    Examples

    Psalm 29:9 The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth And strips the forests bare; And in His temple everything says, “Glory!”

    Isaiah 20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

    Isaiah 47:2 “Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

  2. to scoop, to draw

    Causative action by which humans take a liquid out of a relatively large container with the help of a smaller one

    Examples

    Isaiah 30:14 Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar, So ruthlessly shattered That a shard will not be found among its pieces To take fire from a hearth Or to scoop water from a cistern.”

    Haggai 2:16 from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

9 occurrences in 6 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

8 occurrences in 8 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
עָרָה ʻârâh · H6168 · to uncover, to make bare, to strip
both denote removing cover or exposure; עָרָה (ʻârâh, H6168) has broader application including pouring out and leaving destitute, while חָשַׂף (châsaph, H2834) is more focused on the act of uncovering or laying bare.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Non-Whole002003001021
חָשַׂף describes stripping or laying bare, an act that removes a covering to leave something exposed, as the voice of the LORD strips the forests bare (Psalm 29:9).
Uncover002003001018
The verb directly denotes uncovering, exposing what was hidden or clothed, as the exiles led away naked and with buttocks uncovered (Isaiah 20:4).
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חָשַׂףchâsaph · H2834חָשִׂף châsiph · H2835 · little flock · 1×מַחְשֹׂף machsôph · H4286 · exposing, uncovering · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2834. chasaph חָשַׂף verb strip off, strip, make bare — Qal Perfect חָשַׂף Isa 52:10,…
H2834. chasaph
חָשַׂף verb strip off, strip, make bare —
Qal Perfect חָשַׂף Isa 52:10, חֲשָׂפָהּ Joe 1:7, חָשַׂפְתִּי Jer 13:26; Jer 49:10; Imperfect וַיֶּחֱשׂף Psa 29:9; Imperative feminine singular חֶשְׂמִּיֿ Isa 47:2; Infinitive absolute חָשׂף Joe 1:7; construct לַחְשׂף Isa 30:14; Hag 2:16; Passive participle חֲשׂוּפָה Eze 4:7, חֲשׂוּפַי Isa 20:4 (plural construct ? compare below). —
1 strip off, expose oneself by removing (object שֹׁבֶל, flowing skirt, train) Isa 47:2 of Babylon, personified as queen (|| שׁוֺק גַּלִּי), ׳ח עַלמָּֿנַיִךְ שׁוּלַיִךְ Jer 13:26.
2 strip, lay bare, figurative of ׳י Isa 52:10 object קדשׁו זְרוֺעַ; of prophet, Eze 4:7 (but Co strike out see as interpolation); object person Jer 49:10 (|| גִּלֵּיתִי); חשׂפהּ חָשׂף Joe 1:7 of locusts stripping fig-tree; שֵׁת חֲשׂוּפַי Isa 20:4 (participle either singular collective, with formative ending יַ֯, De LagSe i. 19 (compare 69), BN 192; or plural construct, see Ges§ 87, 1 c.); ׳ח יְעָרוֺת Psa 29:9 of voice of ׳י (i.e. a storm) stripping forests.
3 draw (water) Isa 30:14; (wine) Hag 2:16; properly take from the surface, skim.
חֲשׂוּפַי Isa 20:4 see חשׂף. above

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Non-Whole10 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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