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חֲתֻלָּה

chăthullâh · H2854 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. swaddling band

    Strip of cloth; wrapped tightly around a newly born baby to keep it warm; here used figuratively to describe how God wrapped the water in clouds when he created the earth

    Examples

    Job 38:9 When I made a cloud its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling bands,

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Coverings001003001001005
חֲתֻלָּה names a swaddling band, the wrapping cloth God figuratively assigns to the sea as its garment at creation (Job 38:9).
Clothing001003001001002
The term belongs to the same family of wrapping garments as חִתּוּל, an item of cloth used to bind and cover.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חָתַל châthal · H2853 · to wrap in cloth · 2×חִתּוּל chittûwl · H2848 · bandage · 1×חֲתֻלָּהchăthullâh · H2854
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2854. chathullah [חֲתֻלָּה] noun feminine swaddling-band (see BaNB 146) — only…
H2854. chathullah
[חֲתֻלָּה] noun feminine swaddling-band (see BaNB 146) — only חֲתֻלֶּתוֺ וַעֲרָפֶל לְבֻשׁוֺ עָנָן בְּשׂוּמִי Job 38:9 when I made cloud its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling-band, figurative of dark clouds enveloping the sea.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Coverings1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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