Curtain
יְרִיעָהStrong’s H3407yeriah (ye-ri-ah)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yeriah is the Hebrew word usually translated “curtain”, “curtains” and “curtains of”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.”
Meaning
- Curtain, drape
How it's translated
- the curtain 20
- the curtains 10
- curtains 8
- curtains of 4
- on the curtain 2
- tent curtains my 2
- in curtains of 1
- the tent curtain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 22
- Jeremiah 3
- Numbers 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:2The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
- Exodus 26:3The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
- Exodus 26:4And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
- Exodus 26:5Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
- Exodus 26:6And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
- Exodus 26:7And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Hebrew dictionary
יְרִיעָה yeriah · curtain
curtain, drape
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “curtain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CURTAIN, noun
[Low Latin, in fortification. This word may be from the root of court, and from the sense of separating.]
- A cloth hanging round a bed, or at a window, which may be contracted, spread or drawn aside at pleasure; intended for ornament, or for use.
- A cloth-hanging used in theaters, to conceal the stage from the spectators.
- In fortification, that part of the rampart which is between the flanks of two bastions, bordered with a parapet five feet high, behind which the soldiers stand to fire on the covered way and into the moat.
- In scripture, tents; dwellings. Habakkuk 3:7
All definitions and other forms of “curtain”
CURTAIN, verb transitive
To inclose with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
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.