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# צַמָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6777

**woman’s veil** — 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

woman’s veil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6777/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צַמָּה²: n.f. woman’s veil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6777/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. woman’s veil; sf. צַמָּתֵךְ;—Is 47:2 Ct 4:1, 3; 6:7.

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

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.7/#tree)

כְּפֶ֤לַח הָרִמּוֹן֙ רַקָּתֵ֔ךְ מִבַּ֖עַד לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].like.(the) slice of.(the) pomegranate temple your from behind to veil your

*JPS 1917:* Thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.

[Isaiah 47:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/#tree)

קְחִ֥י רֵחַ֖יִם וְטַ֣חֲנִי קָ֑מַח גַּלִּ֨י צַמָּתֵ֧ךְ חֶשְׂפִּי־שֹׁ֛בֶל גַּלִּי־שׁ֖וֹק עִבְרִ֥י נְהָרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* take a.hand-mill and grind flour uncover veil your strip.off a.skirt uncover a.leg pass.through rivers

*JPS 1917:* Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6777.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6777/): 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).