Headdress
פְּאֵרStrong’s H6287peer (pe-er)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peer is the Hebrew word usually translated “turban”, “head-wrap of” and “head-dresses”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,”
Meaning
- Head-dress, ornament, turban
How it's translated
- a turban 2
- head-wrap of 1
- the head-dresses 1
- turban your 1
- and turbans your 1
- head-dresses of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Exodus 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 3:20The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
- Isaiah 61:3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
- Isaiah 61:10I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
- Ezekiel 24:17Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
- Ezekiel 24:23And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
- Ezekiel 44:18They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
Hebrew dictionary
פְּאֵר peer · headdress
head-dress, ornament, turban
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “headdress” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEAD'DRESS, noun
hed'dress. The dress of the head; the covering or ornaments of a woman's head.
- The crest, or tuft of feathers on a fowl'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.