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title: שֹׁבֶל — flowing skirt · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֹׁבֶל (7640), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: flowing skirt. BDB 1906: flowing skirt, train. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֹׁבֶל

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«שֹׁבֶל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flowing skirt** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7640 · **BDB:** שֹׁ֫בֶל

### Glosses

a.skirt (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flowing skirt [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7640/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

flowing skirt, train [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7640/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] flowing skirt, train;—abs. חֶשְׂפִּי־שׁ׳ Is 47:2 strip off (thy) train.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֹׁבֶל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7640/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 47:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.2/)

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קְחִ֥י רֵחַ֖יִם וְטַ֣חֲנִי קָ֑מַח גַּלִּ֨י צַמָּתֵ֧ךְ חֶשְׂפִּי־שֹׁ֛בֶל גַּלִּי־שׁ֖וֹק עִבְרִ֥י נְהָרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* take a.hand-mill and grind flour uncover veil your strip.off a.skirt uncover a.leg pass.through rivers

*JPS 1917:* Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

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