רַעֲלָה
raʻălâh · H7479 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
- VeilClothing19 verses
Meanings
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veil or scarf
A piece of cloth worn by women around their head and shoulders for ornamentation
ExamplesIsaiah 3:19 dangling earrings, bracelets, veils,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- צָעִיף tsâʻîyph · H6809 · veil
- Both are garments/accessories worn by women for covering; צָעִיף typically refers to a veil or head covering (Gen 24:65, 38:14), while רַעֲלָה (Isa 3:19) is a muffler or similar feminine adornment in the Isaiah 3 luxury-items catalog. They serve similar modest/ornamental functions as worn coverings.
- רָדִיד râdîyd · H7289 · veil, cape, shawl
- Both are feminine garments/wraps in the clothing domain; רְדִיד appears in the same Isaiah 3:23 catalog as a veil or wrap, while רַעֲלָה (v. 19) is a muffler or similar covering. They are near-synonyms as types of women's covering garments in the prophetic denunciation of luxury attire.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Clothing001003001001002
- The sole occurrence, Isaiah 3:19, lists "veils" among the fine women's garments and accessories condemned as vanity, directly attesting the sense of an article of dress.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7479. realah [רְעָלָה] noun [feminine] probably veil (compare Arabic above); — plural…
[רְעָלָה] noun [feminine] probably veil (compare Arabic above); — plural הָֽרְעָלוֺת Isa 3:19, in list of finery.
מַרְעֲלָה see above.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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