Midvash

פָּשַׁטpâshaṭ

strip off, make a dash, raid

Pronunciation: paw-shat' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6584

Meanings

Qal

1. strip off, put off, one's garment (1 Samuel 19:24; Ezekiel 26:16; Leviticus 6:4)

2. put off (one's shelter), i.e. make a dash (from a sheltered place) (Judges 20:37; Judges 9:44; Hosea 7:1)

Pi`el: to strip the slain (1 Samuel 31:8; 1 Chronicles 10:8; 2 Samuel 23:10)

Hiph`il

1. strip one of garment (Genesis 37:23; Numbers 20:26; Numbers 20:28)

2. strip off (1 Samuel 31:9; Job 22:6; Micah 2:8)

3. flay (Leviticus 1:6; 2 Chronicles 29:4; 2 Chronicles 35:11)

Hithpa`el: he stripped himself of (1 Samuel 18:4)

Where it appears

Appears 43 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 37:23 So when Joseph arrived, his brothers ripped off the beautiful robe he was wearing.
  • Leviticus 1:6 Then skin the animal and cut it into pieces.
  • Leviticus 6:11 Then he must take off these garments, change back into his regular clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is ceremonially clean.
  • Leviticus 16:23 “When Aaron goes back into the Tabernacle, he must take off the linen garments he was wearing when he entered the Most Holy Place, and he must leave the garments there.
  • Numbers 20:26 There you will remove Aaron’s priestly garments and put them on Eleazar, his son. Aaron will die there and join his ancestors.”
  • Numbers 20:28 At the summit, Moses removed the priestly garments from Aaron and put them on Eleazar, Aaron’s son. Then Aaron died there on top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar went back down.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).