Veil
מִסְפָּחָהStrong’s H4555mispachah (mis-pa-chah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mispachah is the Hebrew word usually translated “long veils” and “long veils your”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?”
Meaning
- Long veil, veil (as spread out)
How it's translated
- the long veils 1
- long veils your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מִסְפָּחָה mispachah · veil
long veil, veil (as spread out)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “veil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VEIL, noun
[Latin velum.
- A cover; a curtain; something to intercept the view and lude an object.
- A cover; a disguise. [See Vail.
All definitions and other forms of “veil”
VEIL, verb transitive
- To cover with a veil; to conceal.
- To invest; to cover.
- To hide. [See Vail.]
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.