Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
mantle
Usage: wrapper, mantle, covering garment, garments, clothes, raiment, a cloth
Simlah means “apparel” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8071 שִׂמלָה (simlah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. simlah (sim-law') n-f. 1. a dress, especially a mantle [perhaps by permutation for the feminine of H5566 (through the idea of a cover assuming the shape of the object beneath)] It has 28 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include clothes, garment, your, and covering. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
simlah (sim-law') n-f. 1. a dress, especially a mantle [perhaps by permutation for the feminine of H5566 (through the idea of a cover assuming the shape of the object beneath)] KJV: apparel, cloth(-es, -ing), garment, raiment. Root(s): H5566 Compare: H8008
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mantle
Usage: wrapper, mantle, covering garment, garments, clothes, raiment, a cloth
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render simlah, 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.
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.
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28 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
First 28 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8071.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
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.
Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
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Simlah (Strong's H8071) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "apparel". simlah (sim-law') n-f. 1. a dress, especially a mantle [perhaps by permutation for the feminine of H5566 (through the idea of a cover assuming the shape of the object beneath)]
This page currently indexes 28 linked usages for Strong's H8071 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8071 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as clothes, garment, your, and covering. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.