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# יְרִיעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3407

**curtain** — used 54 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

curtain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3407/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְרִיעָה: n.f. curtain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3407/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. curtain (𝔗 יְרִיעֲתָא, Syriac ܝܳܪܺܝܥܬܳܐ )—abs. יְרִיעָה Ex 26:2 + 24 times; pl. abs. יְרִיעֹת Ex 26:1 + 17 times; יְרִיעוֹת 1 Ch 17:1; cstr. יְרִיעֹת Ex 26:7 + 4 times; יְרִיעוֹת Hb 3:7 + 2 times; sf. יְרִיעֹתָ֑י Je 4:20; 10:20; יְרִיעוֹתֵיהֶם Je 49:29;—curtain, of tabern. Ex 26:1, 2(×3), 8(×2) + 38 times Ex 26 and 36; Nu 4:25 (all P); 2 S 7:2 = 1 Ch 17:1;—in gen. (2) curtains Je 4:20; 10:20; 49:29 Hb 3:7 Ct 1:5 (in all ‖ אֹהֶל); יְרִיעֹת … יַטּוּ Is 54:2 (‖ הַרְחִיבִי מְקוֹם אָהֳלֵךְ), fig. of Jerusalem’s prosperity; in sim. נוֹטֶה שָׁמַיִם כַּיְרִיעָה ψ 104:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: curtains (17); the curtain (16); the curtains (8).

## In the verses

[Psalms 104:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.2/#tree)

עֹֽטֶה־א֭וֹר כַּשַּׂלְמָ֑ה נוֹטֶ֥ה שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם כַּיְרִיעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[you.are\].wrapping.yourself light like (the) garment \[you.are\].stretching.out \[the\].heavens like.(the) tent curtain

*JPS 1917:* Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

[Habakkuk 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.7/#tree)

תַּ֣חַת אָ֔וֶן רָאִ֖יתִי אָהֳלֵ֣י כוּשָׁ֑ן יִרְגְּז֕וּן יְרִיע֖וֹת אֶ֥רֶץ מִדְיָֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* under trouble I.have.seen the.tents of.Cushan they tremble the.tent.curtains of.the.land of.Midian

*JPS 1917:* I see the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian do tremble.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3407/): 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).