Hebrew noun (feminine) · H6777
צַמָּה
tsammahtsam-maw'
veil
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsammâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6777is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6777
a veil
The King James renders it: locks.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tsammah is rendered "veil". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Song of Solomon 4:1How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
Song of Solomon 4:1לְצַמָּתֵ֑ךְ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in Song of Solomon.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to veil your3
- veil your1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃2
- לְצַמָּתֵ֑ךְ1
- צַמָּתֵ֧ךְ1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular3HR/Ncfsc/Sp2fs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2fs
Song of Solomon
three uses
How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
- לְצַמָּתֵ֑ךְletzamatekhpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: to veil your
Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
- לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃letzamatekhpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: to veil your
Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
- לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃letzamatekhpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: to veil your
Isaiah
one use
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- צַמָּתֵ֧ךְtzamatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: veil your
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.