Hebrew

Diadem/doom

צְפִירָהStrong’s H6843

tsephirah (tse-phi-rah)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tsephirah is the Hebrew word usually translated “doom” and “diadem of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,”

Meaning

How it's translated

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

צְפִירָה tsephirah · diadem/doom

1) plait, chaplet, wreath, crown 1a) plait, coronet, diadem

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “doom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DOOM, verb transitive

[Latin, to esteem, and perhaps with the root of condemn. See Deem.]

To judge. [Unusual.]
To condemn to any punishment; to consign by a decree or sentence; as, the criminal is doomed to chains.
To pronounce sentence or judgment on.
To command authoritatively.

All definitions and other forms of “doom”

To destine; to fix irrevocably the fate or direction of; as, we are doomed to suffer for our sins and errors.
To condemn, or to punish by a penalty.

DOOM, noun

Judgment; judicial sentence.
Condemnation; sentence; decree; determination affecting the fate or future state of another; usually a determination to inflict evil, sometimes otherwise.
That state to which one is doomed, or destined.
Ruin; destruction.
Discrimination. [Not used.]

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.