'Strips' in the Bible
Then Jacob took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled white strips on them, exposing the white which [was] on the branches.
They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer.
He strips away the authority of kings to punish and puts them in prison clothes instead.
He strips [away] the insight of the heads of the earth's people, and he makes them wander in {a pathless wasteland}.
The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birthand strips the woodlands bare.In His temple all cry, “Glory!”
For the fortified city is isolated,A settlement deserted and abandoned like the desert;There the calf will graze,And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.
Now as to your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord wasn't cut. You weren't washed with water to clean you, and nobody rubbed you with salt. And it's certain that you weren't wrapped in strips of cloth.
You have made your merchantsmore numerous than the stars of the sky.The young locust strips the landand flies away.
and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest quarters.
And this will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a feeding trough."
But when a stronger man than he attacks and defeats him, the stronger man strips off that man's armor in which he trusted and then divides his plunder.
But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. He bent down and saw only the strips of linen cloth; then he went home, wondering what had happened.
The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him and let him go.”
Then they took Jesus' body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs.
He bent down and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, but he did not go in.
Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, arrived and went right into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen cloth lying there,