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Jewelry

חֶלְיָהStrong’s H2484

chelyah (chel-yah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Chelyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “jewelry her”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.”
Hosea 2:13 KJV
Meaning
  1. Jewels, jewelry
How it's translated
  • and jewelry her 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Hosea 1

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    חֶלְיָה chelyah · jewelry

    jewels, jewelry

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “jewelry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    JEW'ELRY, noun

    Jewels in general.

      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.