Stripe
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Exodus 21:25
- Last Reference: Exodus 21:25
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2250 Used 2 times
STRIPE, noun [See Strip. It is probable that this word is taken from stripping.]
1. A line or long narrow division of any thing, of a different color from the ground as a stripe of red on a green ground; hence, any linear variation of color.
2. A strip or long narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as a long stripe sewed upon a garment.
3. The weal or long narrow mark discolored by a lash or rod.
4. A stroke made with a lash, whip, rod, strap or scourge.
Forty stripes may he give him, and not exceed. Deuteronomy 25:3.
[A blow with a club is not a stripe ]
5. Affliction; punishment; sufferings.
By his stripes are we healed. Isaiah 53:5.
STRIPE, verb transitive
1. To make stripes; to form with lines of different colors; to variegate with stripes.
2. To stripe; to lash. [Little used.]
STRIPED, participle passive
1. Formed with lines of different colors.
2. adjective Having stripes of different colors.
As a punishment were not to exceed forty (Deuteronomy 25:1-3), and hence arose the custom of limiting them to thirty-nine (2 Corinthians 11:24). Paul claimed the privilege of a Roman citizen in regard to the infliction of stripes (Acts 16:37, 38; 22:25-29). Our Lord was beaten with stripes (Matthew 27:26).
Inflicted on Paul
2 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Corinthians 11:23
Scourging