Tassel
גְּדִלִיםStrong’s H1434gedil (ge-dil)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gedil is the Hebrew word usually translated “tassels” and “festoons”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.”
Meaning
- Twisted threads, tassels, festoonstassels (on clothes) · festoons (on capitals of columns)
How it's translated
- tassels 1
- festoons 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
גְּדִלִים gedil · tassel
1) twisted threads, tassels, festoons 1a) tassels (on clothes) 1b) festoons (on capitals of columns)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tassel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TAS'SEL, noun
- A sort of pendant ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains and the like, ending in loose threads.
- A small ribbon of silk sewed to a book, to be put between the leaves.
- In building, tassels are the pieces of boards that lie under the mantle-tree.
- A burr. [See Teasel.]
All definitions
- A male hawk; properly terzol.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.