Skin
גֶּ֫לֶדStrong’s H1539geled (ge-led)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Geled is the Hebrew word usually translated “skin my”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.”
Meaning
- Skin (human)
How it's translated
- skin my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
גֶּ֫לֶד geled · skin
skin (human)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “skin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SKIN, noun
- The natural covering of animal bodies, consisting of the cuticle or scarf-skin, the rete mucosum, and the cutis or hide.
- A hide; a pelt; the skin of an animal separated from the body, whether green, dry or tanned.
- The body; the person; in ludicrous language
- The bark or husk of a plant; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
All definitions and other forms of “skin”
SKIN, verb transitive
- To strip off the skin or hide; to flay; to peel.
- To cover with skin
- to cover superficially.
SKIN, verb intransitive
To be covered with skin; as a wound skins over.
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.