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Lexicon :: Strong's H8071 - śimlâ

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שִׂמְלָה
Transliteration
śimlâ
Pronunciation
sim-law'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps by permutation for the fem. of סֶמֶל (H5566) (through the idea of a cover assuming the shape of the object beneath)
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TWOT Reference: 2270a

Strong’s Definitions

שִׂמְלָה simlâh, sim-law'; perhaps by permutation for the feminine of H5566 (through the idea of a cover assuming the shape of the object beneath); a dress, especially a mantle:—apparel, cloth(-es, -ing), garment, raiment. Compare H8008.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's H8071 in the following manner: raiment (11x), clothes (6x), garment (6x), apparel (2x), cloth (2x), clothing (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's H8071 in the following manner: raiment (11x), clothes (6x), garment (6x), apparel (2x), cloth (2x), clothing (2x).

  1. wrapper, mantle, covering garment, garments, clothes, raiment, a cloth

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שִׂמְלָה simlâh, sim-law'; perhaps by permutation for the feminine of H5566 (through the idea of a cover assuming the shape of the object beneath); a dress, especially a mantle:—apparel, cloth(-es, -ing), garment, raiment. Compare H8008.
STRONGS H8071: Abbreviations
† שִׂמְלָה noun feminine wrapper, mantle; — absolute שׂ׳ Genesis 9:23 +, construct שִׂמְלַת Deuteronomy 21:13; Deuteronomy 22:5; suffix שִׂמְלָֽתְךָ Deuteronomy 8:4, etc.; plural שְׂמָלֹת Genesis 45:22 (twice in verse) +, suffix שִׂמְלֹתָם Genesis 44:13 +, etc.; — wrapper, mantle (of man or [Ruth 3:3 +] woman), usually square piece of cloth worn as outer garment (see MackieHast. DB. i. 625; BenzEncy. Bib. iii. 2932), Genesis 35:2; Exodus 22:26 (both E), Deuteronomy 8:4; Deuteronomy 10:18; Deuteronomy 21:13; Deuteronomy 22:3; Isaiah 3:6, 7; Isaiah 9:4; 2 Samuel 12:20 Kt, Ruth 3:3 Kt (Qr in both plural); as covering in sleep Genesis 9:23 (J; compare Exodus 22:26), bed-covering Deuteronomy 22:17; covering or receptacle for articles Exodus 12:34 (E), Judges 8:25; 1 Samuel 21:10, compare Proverbs 30:4; more generally garment, Deuteronomy 22:5, clothes (plural) Genesis 37:34; Genesis 44:13 (J), Genesis 41:14; Exodus 19:10, 14 (all E), Joshua 7:6 (JE); as costly gifts Genesis 45:22 (twice in verse); Exodus 3:22; Exodus 12:35 (all E).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

9:23; 9:23; 35:2; 37:34; 41:14; 44:13; 44:13; 45:22; 45:22

Exodus

3:22; 12:34; 12:35; 19:10; 19:14; 22:26; 22:26

Deuteronomy

8:4; 8:4; 10:18; 21:13; 21:13; 22:3; 22:5; 22:5; 22:17

Joshua

7:6

Judges

8:25

Ruth

3:3; 3:3

1 Samuel

21:10

2 Samuel

12:20

Proverbs

30:4

Isaiah

3:6; 3:7; 9:4

H8071

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8071 matches the Hebrew שִׂמְלָה (śimlâ),
which occurs 31 times in 28 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:23 - Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:2 - So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:34 - Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:14 - Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13 - Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:22 - To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels[fn] of silver and five changes of clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:22 - but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:34 - So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:35 - The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:10 - the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:14 - So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:27 - for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:4 - Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:18 - He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:13 - And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:3 - And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother’s, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:5 - “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:17 - and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6 - Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:25 - And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:3 - Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:20 - Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:4 - Who has ascended to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in his fists?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his son’s name?
Surely you know!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:6 - For a man will take hold of his brother
in the house of his father, saying:
“You have a cloak;
you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
shall be under your rule”;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:7 - in that day he will speak out, saying:
“I will not be a healer;[fn]
in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;
you shall not make me
leader of the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:1 - And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:5 - For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult
and every garment rolled in blood
will be burned as fuel for the fire.
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