Hem
שׁוּלStrong’s H7757shul
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shul is the Hebrew word usually translated “skirts of”, “skirts your” and “skirt its”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:”
Meaning
- Skirt (of robe)of high priest's robe · of God's train, city as woman, ignominy, defilement (fig)
How it's translated
- skirts of 4
- skirts your 3
- skirt its 2
- and skirts of robe his 1
- on skirts her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 5
- Jeremiah 2
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
- Nahum 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 28:34A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
- Exodus 39:24And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
- Exodus 39:25And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;
- Exodus 39:26A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Isaiah 6:1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
- Jeremiah 13:22And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוּל shul · hem
1) skirt (of robe) 1a) of high priest's robe 1b) of God's train, city as woman, ignominy, defilement (fig)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hem” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEM, noun
- The border of a garment, doubled and sewed to strengthen it and prevent the raveling of the threads.
- Edge; border. Matthew 9:20
- A particular sound of the human voice, expressed by the word hem
All definitions and other forms of “hem”
HEM, verb transitive
To form a hem or border; to fold and sew down the edge of cloth to strengthen it.
- To border; to edge.
HEM, verb intransitive
To make the sound expressed by the word hem
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.