Bible word study

Pashat (Strong’s H6584): Meaning in the Bible

Pashat (פָּשַׁט) is the Hebrew word numbered H6584 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to spread out (i.e. deploy in hostile array); by analogy, to strip (i.e. unclothe, plunder, flay, etc.). In the King James Bible it is translated fall upon, flay, invade, make an invasion, pull off.

• Original wordפָּשַׁט
• Transliterationpâshaṭ
• Pronunciationpaw-shat'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH6584
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Pashat appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Pashat (H6584) stands behind 43 English renderings in 42 verses across 16 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 1 Samuel (9), Judges (4), 1 Chronicles (4).

How the King James Bible renders Pashat, by count

• off9 of 43 (21 percent)
• strip7 of 43 (16 percent)
• stripped5 of 43 (12 percent)
• invaded4 of 43 (9 percent)
• flay3 of 43 (7 percent)
• fell2 of 43 (5 percent)

Three places to read Pashat

• Genesis 37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;
• 1 Samuel 30:1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
• Job 1:17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Pashat in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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