שַׂלְמָה
salmâh · sal-maw'
a dress
Lexicon
Derivation: transp. for H8071 (שִׂמְלָה);
a dress
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: clothes, garment, raiment.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- 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)
to consume, to destroy › authority, the one who leads › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of authority, the one who leads of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שַׂלְמָה 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
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- raiment2 · 13%
- garment2 · 13%
- for raiment1 · 6%
- in his own raiment1 · 6%
- your clothes1 · 6%
- garments1 · 6%
- and these our garments1 · 6%
- and garments1 · 6%
- and raiment1 · 6%
- nothing; their clothes1 · 6%
- and mine own clothes1 · 6%
- as with a garment1 · 6%
- of thy garments1 · 6%
- the garment1 · 6%
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.