Wreath
לֹיָהStrong’s H3914loyah (lo-yah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Loyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “garlands”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.”
Meaning
- Wreath, garlandmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- garlands 2
- and garlands 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 7:30And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
- 1 Kings 7:36For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
Hebrew dictionary
לֹיָה loyah · wreath
1) wreath, garland 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wreath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WREATH, noun
[See Writhe.]
- To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; as, to wreath a garland of flowers.
- To interweave; to entwine; as chains of wreathed work.
- To encircle, as a garland.
- To encircle as with a garland; to dress in a garland.
All definitions and other forms of “wreath”
WREATH, verb intransitive
To be interwoven or entwined; as a bower of wreathing trees.
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.