Tassel
צִיצִתStrong’s H6734tsitsit (tsi-tsit)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsitsit is the Hebrew word usually translated “tassel”, “tassel of” and “hair of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:”
Meaning
- Fringe, tassel, lock
How it's translated
- tassel 2
- tassel of 1
- by hair of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 15:39And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
- Ezekiel 8:3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
Hebrew dictionary
צִיצִת tsitsit · tassel
fringe, tassel, lock
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tassel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TAS'SEL, noun
- A sort of pendant ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains and the like, ending in loose threads.
- A small ribbon of silk sewed to a book, to be put between the leaves.
- In building, tassels are the pieces of boards that lie under the mantle-tree.
- A burr. [See Teasel.]
All definitions
- A male hawk; properly terzol.
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.