Strong’s H6809 · Hebrew
צָעִיף
tsâʻîyph · tsaw-eef'
Origin from an unused root meaning to wrap over;
Meaning a veil
In the King James Version vail.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 24:65For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
- Genesis 38:14And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
- Genesis 38:19And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.