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Strong's H646 אֵפוֹד (ephod)

ephowd - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G646 — apostasia (“falling away”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H646
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 39
Books 7

Strong's H646 Quick Answer

Strong's H646 אֵפוֹד אֵפוֹד (ephowd) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ephowd (ay-fode') (rarely oephod {ay-fode'}) n-m. 1. a girdle 2. (specifically) the ephod or high-priest's shoulder-piece It has 39 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include ephod and girdle. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
ephowd (ay-fode') (rarely oephod {ay-fode'}) n-m. 1. a girdle 2. (specifically) the ephod or high-priest's shoulder-piece
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
7 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
ephod and girdle

Meaning and Definition

ephowd (ay-fode') (rarely oephod {ay-fode'}) n-m. 1. a girdle 2. (specifically) the ephod or high-priest's shoulder-piece 3. (generally) an image [probably of foreign derivation] KJV: ephod.

Original Word
אֵפוֹד אֵפוֹד
Transliteration
ephowd
Derivation
Root: אפד
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H646. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

ephod

Usage: 1) ephod 1a) priestly garment, shoulder-cape or mantle, outer garment 1a1) worn by an ordinary priest and made of white stuff 1a2) worn by the high priest-more costly, woven of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and linen threads provided with shoulder-pieces and a breast piece of like material, ornamented with gems and gold

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How Strong's H646 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ephowd, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

ephod Exodus 25:7 32× girdle Exodus 28:4

How Strong's H646 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 39 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H646 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H646 in the Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 25:7 KJV

Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

Exodus 28:4 KJV

And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

Exodus 28:6 KJV

And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H646.

Exodus 25:7 Old Testament, KJV
Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
Exodus 28:4 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus 28:6 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
Exodus 28:12 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
Exodus 28:15 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
Exodus 28:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
Exodus 28:26 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.
Exodus 28:27 Old Testament, KJV
And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
Exodus 28:28 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
Exodus 28:31 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
Exodus 29:5 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
Exodus 35:9 Old Testament, KJV
And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
Exodus 35:27 Old Testament, KJV
And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Exodus 39:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus 39:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus 39:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.
Exodus 39:19 Old Testament, KJV
And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
Exodus 39:20 Old Testament, KJV
And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
Exodus 39:21 Old Testament, KJV
And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:22 Old Testament, KJV
And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
Leviticus 8:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
Judges 8:27 Old Testament, KJV
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Judges 17:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Judges 18:14 Old Testament, KJV
Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Judges 18:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
Judges 18:18 Old Testament, KJV
And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
Judges 18:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
1 Samuel 2:18 Old Testament, KJV
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 2:28 Old Testament, KJV
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
1 Samuel 14:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
1 Samuel 21:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
1 Samuel 22:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 23:6 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
1 Samuel 23:9 Old Testament, KJV
And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
1 Samuel 30:7 Old Testament, KJV
And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
2 Samuel 6:14 Old Testament, KJV
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
1 Chronicles 15:27 Old Testament, KJV
And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
Hosea 3:4 Old Testament, KJV
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H646, grouped by book.

Exodus 21 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 6 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 8 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H646 FAQ

What does ephod (אֵפוֹד) mean?

Ephod (Strong's H646) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "ephod". ephowd (ay-fode') (rarely oephod {ay-fode'}) n-m. 1. a girdle 2. (specifically) the ephod or high-priest's shoulder-piece

How many times is ephod (אֵפוֹד) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's H646 across 7 books.

Where can I study ephod (אֵפוֹד) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H646 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate ephod (אֵפוֹד)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as ephod and girdle. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.