Mantle
שִׂמְלָהStrong’s H8071simlah (sim-lah)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Simlah is the Hebrew word usually translated “garment”, “clothes his” and “clothes their”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.”
Meaning
- Wrapper, mantle, covering garment, garments, clothes, raiment, a cloth
How it's translated
- the garment 3
- clothes his 3
- clothes their 3
- clothes 2
- and clothes 2
- clothing of 2
- a cloak 2
- clothes your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- Exodus 6
- Deuteronomy 6
- Isaiah 4
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 35:2Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
- Genesis 37:34And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Genesis 41:14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
- Genesis 44:13Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
- Genesis 45:22To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
- Exodus 3:22But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׂמְלָה simlah · mantle
wrapper, mantle, covering garment, garments, clothes, raiment, a cloth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mantle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAN'TLE, noun
[Gr. a cloke.]
- A kind of cloke or loose garment to be worn over other garments.
- A cover.
- A cover; that which conceals; as the mantle of charity.
All definitions and other forms of “mantle”
MAN'TLE, verb transitive
To cloke; to cover; to disguise.
MAN'TLE, verb intransitive
To expand; to spread.
- To joy; to revel.
- To be expanded; to be spread or extended.
- To gather over and form a cover; to collect on the surface, as a covering.
- To rush to the face and cover it with a crimson color.
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.