STRAKES

straks: An older form for "streaks" (so the American Standard Revised Version) in the King James Version, the English Revised Version Genesis 30:37 (pitslah, "peeled spot"); Leviticus 14:37 (sheqa`aruroth, "hollow places"). For "strake," Tobit 11:11; the King James Version Acts 27:17.

See STRIKE .

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.