Veil
רְדִידStrong’s H7289radid (ra-did)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Radid is the Hebrew word usually translated “garment my” and “shawls”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.”
Meaning
- Something spread, wide wrapper or large veil
How it's translated
- garment my 1
- and the shawls 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רְדִיד radid · veil
something spread, wide wrapper or large 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.