Bracelet
צָמִידStrong’s H6781tsamid (tsa-mid)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsamid is the Hebrew word usually translated “bracelets”, “cover of” and “bracelet”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;”
Meaning
- Bracelet
- Cover (of vessel)
How it's translated
- bracelets 3
- the bracelets 1
- and the bracelets 1
- a cover of 1
- and a bracelet 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Numbers 2
- Ezekiel 2
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 24:30And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
- Genesis 24:47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
- Numbers 19:15And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
- Numbers 31:50We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
- Ezekiel 16:11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
- Ezekiel 23:42And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
Hebrew dictionary
צָמִיד tsamid · bracelet
bracelet
צָמִיד tsamid · cover
cover (of vessel)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bracelet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BRA'CELET, noun
- An ornament for the wrist, worn by ladies.
- A piece of defensive armor for the arm.
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.