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מַחְשֹׂף

mach.soph

exposing

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Strong’s H4286Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the peeling of1

In the text

Genesis 30:37מַחְשֹׂף
Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מַחְשֹׂף n.m. a laying bare, stripping—only cstr. Gn 30:37 (J)

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.