מוֹרָט
mo.rat
to peel
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word מוֹרָט (mo.rat) translates to "to peel." This action involves removing a layer or covering from an object, likely using force or a sharp edge. The word is used 14 times in the Bible. The use of this term is generally physical and practical. For example, it may describe removing a skin from a fruit or vegetable, like peeling an orange or onion. This verb is often used in agriculture and food preparation contexts. In one instance, a biblical character is described as peeling off at the skin of an animal, suggesting the verb can also describe the removal of animal hides or skins. While its usage is primarily everyday and functional, the word also has broader significance in expressing renewal and transformation. Removing a layer can symbolize shedding something old or unwanted, revealing something new beneath.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
14 total occurrences across the text
When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
Nehemiah 13:25I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
Isaiah 18:2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
Isaiah 18:7In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.
Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
Ezekiel 21:9“Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says: “A sword! A sword! It is sharpened, and also polished.
Ezekiel 21:10It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Should we then make mirth? The rod of my son condemns every tree.
Ezekiel 21:11It is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword is sharpened. Yes, it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer.” ’
Ezekiel 21:11It is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword is sharpened. Yes, it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer.” ’
Ezekiel 21:28“You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: “A sword! A sword is drawn! It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
Ezekiel 29:18“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
Leviticus 13:40“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
Leviticus 13:41If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
1 Kings 7:45the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished bronze.