Hebrew verb · H2834
חָשַׂף
chasaphkhaw-saf'
to strip
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châsaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2834is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2834
to strip off, i.e. generally to make naked (for exertion or in disgrace), to drain away or bail up (a liquid)
The King James renders it: make bare, clean, discover, draw out, take, uncover.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chasaph is rendered "to strip". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 29:9The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
Psalms 29:9וַֽיֶּחֱשֹׂ֪ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and it stripped bare1
- and to scoop1
- and uncovered of1
- bared1
- completely strip bare1
- he has bared1
- I will strip bare1
- I will strip off1
- it has stripped bare it1
- strip off1
- to draw1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַחֲשׂוּפַ֥י1
- וַֽיֶּחֱשֹׂ֪ף1
- וְלַחְשֹׂ֥ף1
- חֲשׂוּפָ֑ה1
- חָשַׂ֤ף1
- חָשֹׂ֤ף1
- חֲשָׂפָהּ֙1
- חֶשְׂפִּי־1
- חָשַׂ֥פְתִּי1
- חָשַׂ֣פְתִּי1
- לַחְשֹׂף֙1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqp1cs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncbsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vqcc
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HVqaa
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3ms/Sp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular1HVqsfsa
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singular1HVqv2fs
Psalms
one use
The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
- וַֽיֶּחֱשֹׂ֪ףvaiyechesofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it stripped bare
Isaiah
four uses
so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.
- וַחֲשׂוּפַ֥יvachasufaiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and uncovered of
It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
- וְלַחְשֹׂ֥ףvelachsofconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to scoop
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- חֶשְׂפִּי־chespi-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: strip off
The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
- חָשַׂ֤ףchasafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has bared
Jeremiah
two uses
So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
- חָשַׂ֥פְתִּיchasaftiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will strip off
But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
- חָשַׂ֣פְתִּיchasaftiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will strip bare
Ezekiel
one use
You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.
- חֲשׂוּפָ֑הchasufahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: bared
Joel
two uses
It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
- חָשֹׂ֤ףchasofverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: completely strip bare
- חֲשָׂפָהּ֙chasafahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has stripped bare it
Haggai
one use
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
- לַחְשֹׂף֙lachsofpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to draw
The letters
Gematria 388· 1,108 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.