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# שַׂלְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8008

**garment** — used 16 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

garment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8008/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׂלְמָה²: n.f.id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8008/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.id.(transp. from שִׂמְלָה);—abs. שׂ׳ Ex 22:8 +, cstr. שַׂלְמַת v 25; sf. שַׂלְמָתוֹ Dt 24:13; pl. שְׂלָמוֹת Jos 9:5 +, sf. שַׂלְמֹתֵיהֶם v 13, etc.;—garment (of man or \[Ct 4:11\] woman): outer garment Ex 22:8, 25 (E), Jos 9:5, 13 (JE), Dt 24:13; 1 K 11:29, 30 ψ 104:2 (fig.); in gen. clothes (pl.) Dt 29:4; Ne 9:21; Jb 9:31; Ct 4:11; as costly gifts 1 K 10:25 = 2 Ch 9:24; as booty Jos 22:8 (late).—Mi 2:8 read prob. שֹׁלְמֹה (Roorda, RSProph. vii. N. 4), or שֹׁלְמִים (We Now GASm), him (those) at pease (with him), cf. 𝔊𝔖.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: garments (5); clothes (3); a garment (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 104:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.2/#tree)

עֹֽטֶה־א֭וֹר כַּשַּׂלְמָ֑ה נוֹטֶ֥ה שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם כַּיְרִיעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[you.are\].wrapping.yourself light like (the) garment \[you.are\].stretching.out \[the\].heavens like.(the) tent curtain

*JPS 1917:* Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

[Job 9:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.31/#tree)

אָ֭ז בַּשַּׁ֣חַת תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִי וְ֝תִֽעֲב֗וּנִי שַׂלְמוֹתָֽי׃

*Word for word:* then in (the) pit you will.dip.me and they will.abhor.me clothes my.own

*JPS 1917:* Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8008.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8008/): 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).