מַחְשֹׂף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4286

a laying bare — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

a laying bare tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְשֹׂף: n.m. laying bare, stripping tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. a laying bare, stripping—only cstr. מַחְשׂף הַלָּבָן Gn 30:37 (J) a stripping of the white, i.e. so as to shew wood under the bark.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the peeling (1).

In the verses

Genesis 30:37 · tree →

וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֣וֹ יַעֲקֹ֗ב מַקַּ֥ל לִבְנֶ֛ה לַ֖ח וְל֣וּז וְעֶרְמ֑וֹןוַיְפַצֵּ֤ל בָּהֵן֙ פְּצָל֣וֹת לְבָנ֔וֹת מַחְשֹׂף֙ הַלָּבָ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־הַמַּקְלֽוֹת׃

Word for word: and he.took for himself Jacob branch[es] of.poplar fresh and almond and plane.tree and he.stripped on them strips white the.peeling of the.white.[wood] which [was].on the branches

JPS 1917: And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the rods.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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