Headgear
מִגְבָּעוֹתStrong’s H4021migbaah (mig-ba-ah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Migbaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “headdresses”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.”
Meaning
- Turban, head-gear
How it's translated
- headdresses 2
- and headdresses 1
- the headdresses 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Leviticus 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:9And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
- Exodus 39:28And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
- Leviticus 8:13And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Hebrew dictionary
מִגְבָּעוֹת migbaah · headgear
turban, head-gear
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “headgear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEADGEAR, noun
hed'gear. The dress of a woman's head.
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.