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# קוֹבַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6959

**helmet** — 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

helmet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6959/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קוֹבַע: helmet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6959/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] helmet (word of peculiar form, and dub. √; prob. foreign word; cf. Ethiopic ቆብዕ: turban, tiara, cowl, so Syriac ܩܽܘܒܥܳܐ;; 𝔗 קוֹבְעָא turban);—abs. ק׳ Ez 23:24; cstr. ק֫וֹבַע נְחשֶׁת 1 S 17:38.—Cf. also כּוֹבַע.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 helmet (1); helmet (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 17:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.38/#tree)

וַיַּלְבֵּ֨שׁ שָׁא֤וּל אֶת־דָּוִד֙ מַדָּ֔יו וְנָתַ֛ן ק֥וֹבַע נְחֹ֖שֶׁת עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַיַּלְבֵּ֥שׁ אֹת֖וֹ שִׁרְיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and he.clothed Saul (et) David garments his and he.put a.helmet of.bronze on head his and he.clothed him body.armor

*JPS 1917:* And Saul clad David with his apparel, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.

[Ezekiel 23:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.24/#tree)

וּבָ֣אוּ עָלַ֡יִךְ הֹ֠צֶן רֶ֤כֶב וְגַלְגַּל֙ וּבִקְהַ֣ל עַמִּ֔ים צִנָּ֤ה וּמָגֵן֙ וְקוֹבַ֔ע יָשִׂ֥ימוּ עָלַ֖יִךְ סָבִ֑יב וְנָתַתִּ֤י לִפְנֵיהֶם֙ מִשְׁפָּ֔ט וּשְׁפָט֖וּךְ בְּמִשְׁפְּטֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.come on you weapon\[s\] chariot\[s\] and wheel\[s\] and with a.company of.peoples body.shield and shield and helmet they.will.set.up on you all.around and I.will.set before them judgment and they will.judge.you by judgments their

*JPS 1917:* And they shall come against thee with hosts, chariots, and wheels, and with an assembly of peoples; they shall set themselves in array against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment unto them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6959.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6959/): 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).