Word

מִצְנֶפֶת

mitsnepheth · H4701 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

Turban, headdressHigh Priest’s clothing15 verses
Headdress, turban, hatClothing11 verses

Meanings

turban

A headpiece formed by winding a long piece of cloth many times around the top of the head; it may have been wound permanently and put on and taken off like a hat; worn by priests, but also by kings

Examples
Exodus 28:4 “And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a tunic of checkered work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that he may serve as priest to Me.
Exodus 28:37 “You shall fasten it on a violet cord, and it shall be on the turban; it shall be at the front of the turban.

How it’s used In 4 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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

שֵׁשׁfine linen 1
בַּדlinen 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 3 groups

שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 2
סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1
עָשָׂהto do, to make 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 2 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against 8
בin/on/with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1

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 1 entry

Clothing001003001001002: The word denotes the turban or mitre worn by the high priest as part of his sacred garments, made of fine linen and set with a holy crown.

Word family 4 words

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

צָנַף tsânaph · H6801 · to roll up, to wear a turban · 3×מִצְנֶפֶתmitsnepheth · H4701צָנִיף tsânîyph · H6797 · turban · 5×צְנֵפָה tsᵉnêphâh · H6802 · turban · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4701. mitsnepheth מִצְנֶ֫פֶת noun feminine turban of high priest; — absolute ׳מ Eze…

H4701. mitsnepheth
מִצְנֶ֫פֶת noun feminine turban of high priest; — absolute ׳מ Eze 21:31, מִצְנָ֑פֶת Exo 28:37; Exo 29:6; construct מִצְנֶ֫פֶת Lev 16:4; — turban of linen Exo 28:4, Exo 28:37 (twice in verse); Exo 28:39; Exo 29:6 (twice in verse); Exo 39:28, Exo 39:31; Lev 8:9 (twice in verse); Lev 16:4; sign of royalty Eze 21:31.
צנק (√ of following; compare Samaritan shut up or in, and perhaps Ethiopic hedge about, PräBASi. 374; compare also Arabic bind, restrain, straighten, Syriac (in Lexicons; usually throw)).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Clothing12 occurrences

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