יְרִיעָה
yᵉrîyʻâh · yer-ee-aw'
a hanging (as tremulous)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3415 (יָרַע);
a hanging (as tremulous)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: curtain.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › the head, the highest › the hand that works › to see and know › to reveal, behold
The hand that works of the head, the highest of the hand that works that works to see and know that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יְרִיעָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
54 occurrences · 54 OT · 0 NT · 28 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- curtains17 · 31%
- curtain15 · 28%
- of the curtain5 · 9%
- the curtains5 · 9%
- of another curtain2 · 4%
- of the curtains2 · 4%
- and every one of the curtains1 · 2%
- remaineth under curtains1 · 2%
- like a curtain1 · 2%
- as the curtains1 · 2%
- and my curtains1 · 2%
- my curtains1 · 2%
- to themselves their curtains1 · 2%
- and the curtains1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.