chasaf · strip bare

What it means

chasaf (חָשַׂף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “strip bare”.

To strip, to lay bare: to take away what covers something, like the leaves of a forest or the clothing from an arm.

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 leave in plain view what was covered.
2. To draw out with a vessel what is in a winepress or a pit.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bare ×2
• bared ×2
• buttocks uncovered ×1
• draw off ×1
• have stripped ×1
• it has stripped it ×1
• lift up ×1
• scoop ×1
• strips ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Joel×2
• Haggai×1

• Psalms 29:9

  The voice of YHWH makes the does give birth and strips the forests; and in his temple all of it 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: the nakedness of Egypt.

• Isaiah 30:14

  And he will break it as one breaks a potters’ jar, crushed without sparing, and there will not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water from the pool.”

• Isaiah 47:2

  Take the mill and grind flour; uncover your veil, lift up the skirt, uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

• Isaiah 52:10

  YHWH has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our Elohim.

• Jeremiah 13:26

  So I also have stripped your skirts over your face, and your disgrace is seen.

• Jeremiah 49:10

  For I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he will not be able to hide himself; his offspring is devastated, and his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.

• Ezekiel 4:7

  And toward the siege of Jerusalem you will direct your face, with your arm bared, and you will prophesy against it.

• Joel 1:7

  It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree splinters; it has stripped it bare and thrown it down; its branches have turned white.

• Haggai 2:16

  since they were so: one came to a heap of twenty, and there were ten; one came to the wine vat to draw off fifty measures, and there were twenty.

And 1 more times.