to strip
pa.shat denotes removing garments, coverings, or skin, and in attack scenes making a raid or rushing against a place.
The prevailing use concerns taking off or stripping away clothing, armor, skin, or another covering, whether from a person, a body, or an offering. In a separate cluster of Qal forms, it describes raiding or rushing against a land, city, or valley; a few contexts extend removal to glory or to what a locust strips away.
Senses in use
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Removing clothing, armor, skin, or a covering · dominant
The term marks the removal of what covers a person or animal: Joseph’s brothers remove his tunic in Genesis 37:23, Moses removes Aaron’s garments in Numbers 20:28, and the Levites skin animals in 2 Chronicles 35:11. It also occurs when garments or armor are taken from Saul or others, as in 1 Samuel 31:9 and Ezekiel 23:26; in Leviticus 1:6 the APB renders the clause “flay the burnt offering.”
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Making a raid or rushing in attack · common
In military settings, Qal forms occur with groups moving against territory or a city: the Philistines “came and stripped in the valley” in 1 Chronicles 14:9, David and his men “raided” hostile peoples in 1 Samuel 27:8, and the Amalekites had raided Ziklag in 1 Samuel 30:1. Judges 9:44 and 2 Chronicles 28:18 likewise place the action in an attack on people or cities.
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Stripping away honor or what is consumed · occasional
Job 19:9 applies the action to Job’s “glory” and crown, with the APB rendering “He has stripped my glory from me.” Nahum 3:16 uses it of a locust that “stripped and flew away,” while the clause does not specify the object removed.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses “strip,” “strip off,” “remove,” and “skin” where the surrounding clause concerns garments, armor, or an animal’s covering. In attack contexts it instead renders the verse with “raid,” “rushed,” or similar language; Those renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent.