Bell
מְצִלָּהStrong’s H4698metsillah (me-tsil-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Metsillah is the Hebrew word usually translated “bells of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.”
Meaning
- Bell
How it's translated
- bells of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zechariah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מְצִלָּה metsillah · bell
bell
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bell” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BELL, noun
- A vessel or hollow body, used for making sounds.
- A hollow body of metal, perforated, and containing a solid ball, to give sounds when shaken; used on animals, as on horses or hawks.
- Any thing in form of a bell as the cup or calix of a flower.
All definitions and other forms of “bell”
BELL, verb intransitive
To grow in the form of bells, as buds or flowers.
BELL'-FASHIONED, adjective
Having the form of a bell
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.