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Skirt

שֹׁ֫בֶלStrong’s H7640

shovel (sho-vel)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Shovel is the Hebrew word usually translated “skirt”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.”
Isaiah 47:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. Flowing skirt, train
How it's translated
  • a skirt 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    שֹׁ֫בֶל shovel · skirt

    flowing skirt, train

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    SKIRT, noun

    1. The lower and loose part of a coat or other garment; the part below the waist; as the skirt of a coat or mantle. 1 Samuel 15:27
    2. The edge of any part of dress.
    3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part; as the skirt of a forest; the skirt of a town.
    4. A woman's garment like a petticoat.
    All definitions and other forms of “skirt”
    1. The diaphragm or midriff in animals.

    SKIRT, verb transitive

    To border; to form the border or edge; or to run along the edge; as a plain skirted by rows of trees; a circuit skirted round with wood.

      SKIRT, verb intransitive

      To be on the border; to live near the extremity.

        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.