Deuteronomy 22:30
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
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Nahum 3:5
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
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גָּלָה
gâlâh · gaw-law'
10 times translated as this KJV form190 total Strong's occurrences
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
Strong's KJV usage: advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, × plainly, publish, remove, reveal, × shamelessly, shew, × surely, tell, uncover.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 22:30Strong's last: Nahum 3:5
Open full H1540 profile →חָשַׂף
châsaph · khaw-saf'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to strip off, i.e. generally to make naked (for exertion or in disgrace), to drain away or bail up (a liquid)
Strong's KJV usage: make bare, clean, discover, draw out, take, uncover.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 13:26Strong's last: Jeremiah 13:26
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ʻârâh · aw-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causatively, make) bare; hence, to empty, pour out, demolish
Strong's KJV usage: leave destitute, discover, empty, make naked, pour (out), rase, spread self, uncover.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 3:17Strong's last: Isaiah 3:17
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H1540
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
H1540
Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.
H1540
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
H1540
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
H1540
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
H6168
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
H2834
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
H1540
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
H1540
Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
H1540
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
H1540
Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
H1540
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
English meaning and historical usage.
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discover
DISCOVER, verb transitive [See Cover.]
1. Literally, to uncover; to remove a covering. Isaiah 22:8.
2. To lay open to the view; to disclose; to show; to make visible; to expose to view something before unseen or concealed.
Go, draw aside the curtains and discover the several caskets to this noble prince.
He discovereth deep things out of darkness. Job 12:22.
Law can discover sin, but not remove.
3. To reveal; to make known.
We will discover ourselves to them. 1 Samuel 14:8.
DISCOVER not a secret to another. Proverbs 25:9.
4. To espy; to have the first sight of; as, a man at mast-head discovered land.
When we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand. Acts 21:3.
5. To find out; to obtain the first knowledge of; to come to the knowledge of something sought or before unknown. Columbus discovered the variation of the magnetic needle. We often discover our mistakes, when too late to prevent their evil effects.
6. To detect; as, we discovered the artifice; the thief, finding himself discovered, attempted to escape.
DISCOVER differs from invent. We discover what before existed, though to us unknown; we invent what did not before exist.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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