The word in Scripture

Stripes in the Bible

The word stripes appears 17 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Stripes are the lashes of punishment borne by another. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What stripes means in the Bible

Stripes are the lashes of punishment borne by another.

Where the word stripes appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word stripes appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.”Deuteronomy 25:3

“Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.”Psalms 89:32

“A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.”Proverbs 17:10

“The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.”Proverbs 20:30

“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”Isaiah 53:5

“And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.”Luke 12:47

“And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.”Acts 16:33

“In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;”2 Corinthians 6:5