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# צָנִיף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6797

**turban** — used 5 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

turban [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6797/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָנִיף: n.m. turban [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6797/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Zc 3:5 turban;—abs. צ׳ Zc 3:5(×2) (for h. priest) and (fig. of righteousness) Jb 29:14; cstr. צְנִיף מְלוּכָה Is 62:3 Qr royal turban (Kt צנוף); pl. הַצְּנִיפוֹת Is 3:23 (of women’s turbans).

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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 29:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.14/#tree)

צֶ֣דֶק לָ֭בַשְׁתִּי וַיִּלְבָּשֵׁ֑נִי כִּֽמְעִ֥יל וְ֝צָנִ֗יף מִשְׁפָּטִֽי׃

*Word for word:* righteousness I.put.on and it clothed.me \[was\].like a.robe and a.turban justice my

*JPS 1917:* I put on righteousness, and it clothed itself with me; my justice was as a robe and a diadem.

[Isaiah 3:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.23/#tree)

וְהַגִּלְיֹנִים֙ וְהַסְּדִינִ֔ים וְהַצְּנִיפ֖וֹת וְהָרְדִידִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and the mirrors and the.linen garments and the headdresses and the shawls

*JPS 1917:* and the gauze robes, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the mantles.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6797.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6797/): 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).