Turban
מִצְנֶ֫פֶתStrong’s H4701mitsnephet (mits-ne-phet)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mitsnephet is the Hebrew word usually translated “turban” and “turban of”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.”
Meaning
- Turban (of the high priest)
How it's translated
- the turban 9
- a turban 1
- a turban of 1
- and with a turban of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 6
- Leviticus 2
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 28:37And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
- Exodus 28:39And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.
- Exodus 29:6And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
- Exodus 39:28And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
- Exodus 39:31And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:9And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Hebrew dictionary
מִצְנֶ֫פֶת mitsnephet · turban
turban (of the high priest)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “turban” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TUR'BAN, noun
A head dress worn by the orientals, consisting of a cap, and a sash of fine linen or taffeta artfully wound round it in plaits. The cap is red or green, roundish on the top, and quilted with cotton. The sash of the Turks is white linen; that of the Persians is red woolen.
- In conchology, the whole set of whirls of a shell.
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.