Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6809
צָעִיף
tsaiphtsaw-eef'
shawl
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsâʻîyph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6809is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6809
a veil
The King James renders it: vail.
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
tsaiph is rendered "shawl". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:65and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
Genesis 24:65הַצָּעִ֖יף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the veil1
- veil her1
- with the veil1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| צָעִיר | tsair | little | Uses23 |
All 3, 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
- בַּצָּעִיף֙1
- הַצָּעִ֖יף1
- צְעִיפָ֖הּ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
three uses
and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
- הַצָּעִ֖יףhatzaifthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the veil
she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
- בַּצָּעִיף֙batzaifpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the veil
Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
- צְעִיפָ֖הּtzeifahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: veil her
The letters
Gematria 250· 970 mispar gadol
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.