Veil
צַמָּהStrong’s H6777tsammah (tsam-mah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsammah is the Hebrew word usually translated “veil your”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.”
Meaning
- Veil, woman's veil
How it's translated
- to veil your 3
- veil your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 3
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 4:3Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
- Song of Solomon 6:7As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
- Isaiah 47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Hebrew dictionary
צַמָּה tsammah · veil
veil, woman's veil
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “veil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VEIL, noun
[Latin velum.
- A cover; a curtain; something to intercept the view and lude an object.
- A cover; a disguise. [See Vail.
All definitions and other forms of “veil”
VEIL, verb transitive
- To cover with a veil; to conceal.
- To invest; to cover.
- To hide. [See Vail.]
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.