pashat · strip

What it means

pashat (פָּשַׁט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “strip”.

Off clothing, strip someone; also raid, make a dash against.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To take off clothes, or strip another.
2. To make a raid.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• strip ×11
• stripped ×8
• raided ×4
• made a raid ×3
• rushed ×3
• take off ×3
• made raids ×2
• skin ×2
• I have taken off ×1
• raid ×1
• others ×5

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×2
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×9
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×4
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×3
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×2
• Micah×2
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 37:23

  When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his robe, the long robe that was on him;

• Leviticus 1:6

  He shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces.

• Leviticus 6:11

  Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and bring out the ashes to outside the camp, to a clean place.

• Leviticus 16:23

  Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments that he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and leave them there.

• Numbers 20:26

  and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there.”

• Numbers 20:28

  And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

• Judges 9:33

  And in the morning, as the sun rises, you shall rise early and rush upon the city; and when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you shall do to him as your hand finds.

• Judges 9:44

  Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the field and struck them.

• Judges 20:37

  And the ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; and the ambush marched and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

• 1 Samuel 18:4

  Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his garment, and even his sword, and even his bow, and even his belt.

• 1 Samuel 19:24

  He too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel, and fell down naked all that day and all the night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

• 1 Samuel 23:27

  But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have raided the land.”

• 1 Samuel 27:8

  David and his men would go up and raid the Geshurites, the Gizrites, and the Amalekites, for these inhabited the land from of old, as you go toward Shur and as far as the land of Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 27:10

  Achish would say, “Against whom have you raided today?” And David would say, “Against the Negev of Judah,” or “against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites,” or “against the Negev of the Kenites.”

• 1 Samuel 30:1

  When David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had raided against the Negev and against Ziklag, and they had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire.

• 1 Samuel 30:14

  We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, and against what belongs to Judah, and against the Negev of Caleb; and Ziklag we burned with fire.”

• 1 Samuel 31:8

  The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

• 1 Samuel 31:9

  They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent throughout the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols and to the people.

• 2 Samuel 23:10

  He rose and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and his hand stuck to the sword; and YHWH brought about a great salvation on that day; and the people returned after him only to strip the slain.

• 1 Chronicles 10:8

  And the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

• 1 Chronicles 10:9

  And they stripped him and took away his head and his weapons, and sent throughout the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols and to the people.

• 1 Chronicles 14:9

  The Philistines had come and made a raid in the Valley of Rephaim.

• 1 Chronicles 14:13

  Once more the Philistines made a raid in the valley.

• 2 Chronicles 25:13

  But the members of the band that Amaziah had sent back from going with him to war made raids on the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck of them three thousand, and plundered much plunder.

• 2 Chronicles 28:18

  The Philistines made raids on the cities of the Shephelah and of the Negev of Judah, and captured Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its villages, Timnah and its villages, and Gimzo and its villages; and they settled there.

• 2 Chronicles 29:34

  But the priests were too few and could not skin all the burnt offerings; so their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

• 2 Chronicles 35:11

  They slaughtered the Passover, and the priests splashed the blood they received from their hand, and the Levites were skinning.

• Nehemiah 4:23

  So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my young men, nor the men of the guard who were behind me— none of us took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even at the water.

• Job 1:17

  This one was still speaking when another came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them, and the young men they struck with the edge of the sword, and I escaped, only I, I alone, to tell you.”

• Job 19:9

  He has stripped me of my honor, and removed the crown from my head.

• Job 22:6

  For you took pledges from your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

• Song of Songs 5:3

  I have taken off my tunic; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I soil them?

• Isaiah 32:11

  Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you confident ones; strip and make yourselves bare, and gird yourselves on your hips.

• Ezekiel 16:39

  And I will give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound and demolish your lofty places, and they will strip you of your garments and take your objects of beauty, and leave you naked and bare.

• Ezekiel 23:26

  And they will strip you of your clothes and take the objects of your beauty.

• Ezekiel 26:16

  And all the chiefs of the sea will come down from their thrones, and remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments; with tremblings they will clothe themselves; on the ground they will sit, and tremble every moment, and be appalled at you.

• Ezekiel 44:19

  And when they go out to the outer court, to the outer court, to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they minister, and they shall lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

• Hosea 2:3

  or else I will strip her naked and set her out as on the day she was born, and make her like the wilderness, and leave her like a land that is dry, and kill her with thirst.

• Hosea 7:1

  When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evils of Samaria; for they practice falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the band of raiders raids outside.

• Micah 2:8

  “And yesterday my people rose up as an enemy; from the front of the garment you strip the cloak from those who pass by trustingly, like those returning from war.

And 3 more times.