Turban
טְבוּלStrong’s H2871tavul (ta-vul)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tavul is the Hebrew word usually translated “turbans”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:”
Meaning
- Turban
How it's translated
- turbans 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
טְבוּל tavul · turban
turban
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “turban” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TUR'BAN, noun
A head dress worn by the orientals, consisting of a cap, and a sash of fine linen or taffeta artfully wound round it in plaits. The cap is red or green, roundish on the top, and quilted with cotton. The sash of the Turks is white linen; that of the Persians is red woolen.
- In conchology, the whole set of whirls of a shell.
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.