חָשַׂף châsaph — to strip off, i.e. generally to make naked (for exertion or in disgrace), to drain away or bail up (a liquid)
Translated in the KJV as make bare, clean, discover, draw out, take, uncover.
a primitive root; to strip off, i.e. generally to make naked (for exertion or in disgrace), to drain away or bail up (a liquid).
châsaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 4Participle (passive) 2Infinitive construct 2Wayyiqtol 1Imperative 1Infinitive absolute 1
The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›