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# אֲפֻדָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H642

**ephod** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ephod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/642/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲפֻדָּה: n.f. ephod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/642/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ephod (= אֵפוֹד, for which it supplies cstr. & sf. forms). of high-priest’s ephod, cf. אֵפוֹד 1 b, only חֵשֶׁב אֲפֻדָּתוֹ Ex 28:8; 39:5 the cunningly-wrought band of his ephod. of sheathing of idol-images, אֲפֻדַּת מַסֵּכַת זְהָבֶ֑ךָ Is 30:22 (‖ צִפּוּי פְּסִילֵי כַסְפֶּךָ) cf. אֵפוֹד 3 a.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: its ephod (2); the sheathing (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 30:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.22/#tree)

וְטִמֵּאתֶ֗ם אֶת־צִפּוּי֙ פְּסִילֵ֣י כַסְפֶּ֔ךָ וְאֶת־אֲפֻדַּ֖ת מַסֵּכַ֣ת זְהָבֶ֑ךָ תִּזְרֵם֙ כְּמ֣וֹ דָוָ֔ה צֵ֖א תֹּ֥אמַר לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make.unclean (et) the.plating of.the.images your.silver your and (et) the.sheathing of.the.molten.image your.gold your you will.throw.them.away like a.menstrual.\[rag\] filth you.will.say to it

*JPS 1917:* And ye shall defile thy graven images overlaid with silver, and thy molten images covered with gold; thou shalt put them far away as one unclean; thou shalt say unto it: 'Get thee hence.'

[Exodus 28:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.8/#tree)

וְחֵ֤שֶׁב אֲפֻדָּתוֹ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָלָ֔יו כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֖הוּ מִמֶּ֣נּוּ יִהְיֶ֑ה זָהָ֗ב תְּכֵ֧לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְתוֹלַ֥עַת שָׁנִ֖י וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and the.girdle its.ephod his which \[will be\].on.it \[will be\] like.its.workmanship from it it.will.be gold violet.stuff and purple and scarlet.stuff of.scarlet and fine.linen twisted

*JPS 1917:* And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/642.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/642/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).