Pendant
נְטִיפָהStrong’s H5188netiphah (ne-ti-phah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Netiphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “pendants”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.”
Meaning
- Droppendant, ornament
How it's translated
- and the pendants 1
- the pendants 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נְטִיפָה netiphah · pendant
1) drop 1a) pendant, ornament
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pendant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PEND'ANT, noun
[Latin pendeo, to hang.]
- An ornament or jewel hanging at the ear, usually composed of pearl or some precious stone.
- Any thing hanging by way of ornament.
- In heraldry, a part hanging from the label, resembling the drops in the Doric frieze.
- A streamer; a small flag or long narrow banner displayed from a ship's mast head, usually terminating in two points called the swallow's tail.
All definitions
- A short piece of rope fixed on each side under the shrouds, on the heads of the main and fore-mast, having an iron thimble to receive the hooks of the tackle.
- A pendulum. [Not used.]
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.