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יְרִיעָה

yᵉrîyʻâh · H3407 · Hebrew · 54 occurrences

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A word for 3 things

Meanings

  1. tent cover or tent cloth

    A long strip of cloth, usually goat's hair or linen, sewn together into larger pieces to cover a tent or separate one room from another

    Examples

    Exodus 26:1 “Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and violet, purple, and scarlet material; you shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skilled embroiderer.

    Exodus 26:2 “The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have the same measurements.

    Exodus 26:3 “Five curtains shall be joined to one another, and the other five curtains shall be joined to one another.

  2. tent curtains > tent

    Construction made up of tent curtains

    Examples

    2 Samuel 7:2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of God remains within the tent.”

    1 Chronicles 17:1 And it came about, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under tent curtains.”

    Habakkuk 3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan under distress, The tent curtains of the land of Midian were trembling.

  3. tent covers > dwelling-place, home

    Location where a family or household lives

    Examples

    Jeremiah 4:20 Disaster upon disaster is proclaimed, For the whole land is devastated; Suddenly my tents are devastated, And my curtains in an instant.

How it’s used In 10 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

11 occurrences in 7 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

31 occurrences in 8 groups

Named alongside itApposition

6 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

12 occurrences in 6 groups

Second object ofSecond object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

3 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

5 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

10 occurrences in 4 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

18 occurrences in 6 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries
Furnishings001003001001008
The curtains furnish the tabernacle's construction, forming part of its fitted covering, as detailed in the instructions for the ten curtains of fine twisted linen in Exodus 26:1.
Tents001003002009
The curtains are joined and measured as the tent-like covering of the tabernacle structure, described by their length and width in Exodus 26:2.
Dwell002002001005
The curtains form the dwelling covering of the tabernacle, the place where the LORD's presence was housed among the people, as their joined sets are described throughout Exodus 26.
Word family 2 words

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

יָרַע yâraʻ · H3415 · to quiver · 1×יְרִיעָהyᵉrîyʻâh · H3407
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3407. yeriah יְרִיעָה54 noun feminine curtain (יְרִיעֲתָא ᵑ7, Syriac ) — absolute…
H3407. yeriah
יְרִיעָה54 noun feminine curtain (יְרִיעֲתָא ᵑ7, Syriac ) — absolute יְרִיעָה Exo 26:2 Exo 26:24t.; plural absolute יְרִיעֹת Exo 26:1 Exo 26:17t.; יְרִיעוֺת 1Ch 17:1; construct יְרִיעֹת Exo 26:7 Exo 26:4t.; יְרִיעוֺת Hab 3:7 Hab 3:2t.; suffix יְרִיעֹתָ֑י Jer 4:20; Jer 10:20; יְרִיעוֺתֵיהֶם Jer 49:29; — curtain, of tabernacle Exo 26:1-2,(3 t. in verse); Exo 26:8 (twice in verse) + 38 t. Exodus 26 and 36; Num 4:25 (all P); 2Sa 7:2 = 1Ch 17:1; — in General (tent-) curtains Jer 4:20; Jer 10:20; Jer 49:29; Hab 3:7; Son 1:5 (in all || אֹהֶל); יְרִיעֹתיַ֗֗֗טוּ Isa 54:2 (|| אָהֳלֵךְ מְקוֺם הַרְחִיבִי), figurative of Jerusalem's prosperity; in simile כַּיְרִיעָה שָׁמַיִם נוֺטֶה Psa 104:2.

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Furnishings50 occurrencesTents3 occurrencesDwell1 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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