H6809: צָעִיף
tsâʻîyph · pronounced tsaw-eef' · “shawl”
Definition
a veil
KJV translates it as: vail.
Word origin: from an unused root meaning to wrap over;
Extended definition
wrapper, shawl, veil
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6809 is translated
- veil ×2
- her ×1
Bible verses with H6809 (tsâʻîyph)
Tsâʻîyph appears in 3 verses.
- Genesis 24:65
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
- Genesis 38:14
And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
- Genesis 38:19
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.