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# מִגְבָּעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4021

**head-gear** — used 4 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

head-gear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4021/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִגְבָּעוֹת: n.f.pl. head-gear, turban [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4021/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.pl. head-gear, turban, of common priest (conical or convex), Ex 28:40 Lv 8:13; מִגְבָּעֹת Ex 29:9; 39:28 (פַּאֲרֵי הַמּ׳).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: headdresses (3); the headdresses (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 39:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.28/#tree)

וְאֵת֙ הַמִּצְנֶ֣פֶת שֵׁ֔שׁ וְאֶת־פַּאֲרֵ֥י הַמִּגְבָּעֹ֖ת שֵׁ֑שׁ וְאֶת־מִכְנְסֵ֥י הַבָּ֖ד שֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the turban fine.linen and (et) the.head-wraps of the.headdresses fine.linen and (et) the.undergarments of.(the) linen fine.linen twisted

*JPS 1917:* and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,

[Exodus 28:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.40/#tree)

וְלִבְנֵ֤י אַהֲרֹן֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה כֻתֳּנֹ֔ת וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ לָהֶ֖ם אַבְנֵטִ֑ים וּמִגְבָּעוֹת֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה לָהֶ֔ם לְכָב֖וֹד וּלְתִפְאָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* and for the.sons of.Aaron you.will.make tunics and you.will.make for them sashes and headdresses you.will.make for them for glory and for beauty

*JPS 1917:* And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for splendour and for beauty.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4021.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4021/): 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).