Topic
Strakes
4 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 30:37ISBE
¶ And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
- Leviticus 14:37ISBE
And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
- Tobit 11:11ISBE
And took hold of his father: and he strake of the gall on his fathers’ eyes, saying, Be of good hope, my father.
- Acts 27:17ISBE
Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 4 references
straks: An older form for "streaks" (so the American Standard Revised Version) in the King James Version, the English Revised Version Ge 30:37 (pitslah, "peeled spot"); Le 14:37 (sheqa`aruroth, "hollow places"). For "strake," Tobit 11:11; the King James Version Ac 27:17.
See STRIKE.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.