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# צָעִיף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6809

**wrapper** — used 3 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

wrapper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6809/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָעִיף: wrapper, shawl veil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6809/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] wrapper, shawl, or veil;—abs. צ׳ Gn 24:65; 38:14; sf. צְעִיפָהּ v 19 (all J).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 38:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.19/#tree)

וַתָּ֣קָם וַתֵּ֔לֶךְ וַתָּ֥סַר צְעִיפָ֖הּ מֵעָלֶ֑יהָ וַתִּלְבַּ֖שׁ בִּגְדֵ֥י אַלְמְנוּתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and she.arose and she.went and she.removed veil her from on her and she.put.on the.clothes her.widowhood her

*JPS 1917:* And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

[Genesis 24:65](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.65/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.65/#tree)

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־הָעֶ֗בֶד מִֽי־הָאִ֤ישׁ הַלָּזֶה֙ הַהֹלֵ֤ךְ בַּשָּׂדֶה֙ לִקְרָאתֵ֔נוּ וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הָעֶ֖בֶד ה֣וּא אֲדֹנִ֑י וַתִּקַּ֥ח הַצָּעִ֖יף וַתִּתְכָּֽס׃

*Word for word:* and she.said to the servant who? \[is\].the man this \[who is\].walking in the field to meet us and he.said the servant he master \[is\].my and she.took the veil and she.covered.herself

*JPS 1917:* And she said unto the servant: 'What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?' And the servant said: 'It is my master.' And she took her veil, and covered herself.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6809.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6809/): 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).