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# מִטְפַּחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4304

**cloak** — used 2 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

cloak [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4304/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִטְפַּ֫חַת: n.f. cloak [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4304/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cloak, abs. הַמִּטְפַּחַת אֲשֶׁר־עָלַיִךְ Ru 3:15; pl. הַמִּטְפָּחוֹת Is 3:22.

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 3:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.22/#tree)

הַמַּֽחֲלָצוֹת֙ וְהַמַּ֣עֲטָפ֔וֹת וְהַמִּטְפָּח֖וֹת וְהָחֲרִיטִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.fine robes and the over-tunics and the cloaks and the purses

*JPS 1917:* the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles;

[Ruth 3:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.3.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.3.15/#tree)

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הָ֠בִי הַמִּטְפַּ֧חַת אֲשֶׁר־עָלַ֛יִךְ וְאֶֽחֳזִי־בָ֖הּ וַתֹּ֣אחֶז בָּ֑הּ וַיָּ֤מָד שֵׁשׁ־שְׂעֹרִים֙ וַיָּ֣שֶׁת עָלֶ֔יהָ וַיָּבֹ֖א הָעִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and he.said give the shawl which \[is\].on you and take.hold on it and she.took.hold on it and he.measured.out six barley(s) and he.put.\[it\] on her and he.came the city

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'Bring the mantle that is upon thee, and hold it'; and she held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; and he went into the city.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4304/): 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).