Turban
צָנִיףStrong’s H6797tsaniph (tsa-niph)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsaniph is the Hebrew word usually translated “turban”, “headdresses” and “headdress of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.”
Meaning
- Turban, headdress
How it's translated
- and a turban 1
- and the headdresses 1
- and a headdress of 1
- a turban 1
- the turban 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Job 1
- Zechariah 1
3 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
צָנִיף tsaniph · turban
turban, headdress
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “turban” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TUR'BAN, noun
A head dress worn by the orientals, consisting of a cap, and a sash of fine linen or taffeta artfully wound round it in plaits. The cap is red or green, roundish on the top, and quilted with cotton. The sash of the Turks is white linen; that of the Persians is red woolen.
- In conchology, the whole set of whirls of a shell.
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.