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# שׁוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7757

**skirt** — used 11 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

skirt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7757/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּל: n.m. skirt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7757/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 6:1 skirt, of robe;—pl. cstr. שׁוּלֵי Ex 28:34 +; sf. שׁוּלַיִךְ Na 3:5 +, שׁוּלָיו Is 6:1 +, שׁוּלֶיהָ La 1:9;—skirts; of א׳’s train, in vision Is 6:1; elsewhere of city personif. as woman, in phrase of ignominy, חָשַׂפְתִּי שׁוּלַיִךְ Je 13:26, גִּלֵּיתִי שׁ׳ עַל־פָּנַיִךְ Na 3:5, נִגְלוּ שׁ׳ וגו׳ Je 13:22; of defilement, טֻמְאָתָהּ בְּשׁ׳ La 1:9; of high priest’s robe Ex 28:33(×2), 34 = 39:24, 25, 26 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the skirts (5); of your robe (3); skirts (3).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.34/#tree)

פַּעֲמֹ֤ן זָהָב֙ וְרִמּ֔וֹן פַּֽעֲמֹ֥ן זָהָ֖ב וְרִמּ֑וֹן עַל־שׁוּלֵ֥י הַמְּעִ֖יל סָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* a.bell of.gold and a.pomegranate a.bell of.gold and a.pomegranate \[will.be\].on the.skirts of the.robe all.around

*JPS 1917:* a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about.

[Jeremiah 13:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.26/#tree)

וְגַם־אֲנִ֛י חָשַׂ֥פְתִּי שׁוּלַ֖יִךְ עַל־פָּנָ֑יִךְ וְנִרְאָ֖ה קְלוֹנֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and also I I.will.strip.off of.your.robe the.skirts over face your and it.will.be.visible shame your

*JPS 1917:* Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7757.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7757/): 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).