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Thong

שְׂרוֹךְStrong’s H8288

serokh (se-rokh)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Serokh is the Hebrew word usually translated “thong of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:”
Genesis 14:23 KJV
Meaning
  1. Sandal thong
How it's translated
  • a thong of 2

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1
  • Isaiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

שְׂרוֹךְ serokh · thong

sandal thong

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

THONG, noun

A strap of leather, used for fastening any thing.

    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.