פָּצַל
patsal · peel
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6478 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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patsal (פָּצַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “peel”.
Strip off bark.
How to say it
pa·tsal
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
- To strip the bark from a stick, leaving white stripes.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 30:37
Jacob took for himself fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane tree, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white that was on the rods.
- Genesis 30:38
He set the rods that he had peeled in the channels, in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink, in front of the flocks; and they mated when they came to drink.