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Deuteronomy 8:4

“Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שִׂמְלָהsimlâh · sim-law'
H8071 · Hebrew

Definition: a dress, especially a mantle
Derivation: perhaps by permutation for the feminine of H5566 (סֶמֶל) (through the idea of a cover assuming the shape of the object beneath);
KJV renderings: apparel, cloth(-es, -ing), garment, raiment. Compare H8008 (שַׂלְמָה).
Grammar: שִׂמְלָ֨תְ — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
ךָ֜ — suffix (pronominal), 2nd person, masculine, singular
Code HNcfsc/Sp2ms
Usage: Occurs 31 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 9:23 Genesis 35:2 Genesis 37:34 Genesis 41:14 Genesis 44:13

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שִׂמְלָה here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.