מִצְנֶ֫פֶת
turban
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 11 times (92%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 12 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4701 appears — 9 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 6 verses
- Exodus 28:4 מִצְנֶ֣פֶת n c fs These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
- Exodus 28:37 הַ/מִּצְנָ֑פֶת הַ/מִּצְנֶ֖פֶת ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.
- Exodus 28:39 מִצְנֶ֣פֶת n c fs You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
- Exodus 29:6 הַ/מִּצְנֶ֖פֶת הַ/מִּצְנָֽפֶת ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.
- Exodus 39:28 הַ/מִּצְנֶ֣פֶת ptcl def.art + n c fs and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,
- Exodus 39:31 הַ/מִּצְנֶ֖פֶת ptcl def.art + n c fs They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Leviticus 2 verses
- Leviticus 8:9 הַ/מִּצְנֶ֖פֶת הַ/מִּצְנֶ֜פֶת ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 16:4 וּ/בְ/מִצְנֶ֥פֶת conj + prep + n c fs cs He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be dressed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מצנפת (mitsnepheth) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “turban.” Exodus dominates its distribution — 6 of 9 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 9 verses — uncommon. Debuting at Exodus 28:4, it then recurs through the corpus. Where the King James Version says “mitre,” newer translations reach for “turban” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4701 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 89%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Mitre 10×
- American Standard Version: Mitre 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Turban 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Turban 12×, The 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4701 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4701 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4701 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4701 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- turban (of the high priest)
Word origin
n.f. turban of high priest;—abs. מ׳ Ez 21:31, מִצְנָ֑פֶת Ex 28:37; 29:6; cstr. מִצְנֶ֫פֶת Lv 16:4;—turban of linen Ex 28:4, 37(×2), 39; 29:6(×2); 39:28, 31; Lv 8:9(×2); 16:4; sign of royalty Ez 21:31.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צנף (tsânaph) (H6801) — to wrap.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מִצְנֶפֶת
- v. צנף a. derivatives) [the bright headdress,] turban esp. the priest’s turban. Tosef. Yoma I, 10 נוטל מִצְנַפְתּוֹ של וכ׳ he took the turban from the head of one of them, and they knew that the count for the lot was to begin with him; Yoma 25ᵃ. Ib. מ׳ בבגדי חול וכ׳ is there a turban (mitsnefeth) among common dresses (not used at the priestly service)? Ib. VII, 5; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H4701 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/מִּצְנֶ֖פֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:37 | 4 |
| מִצְנֶ֣פֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:4 | 2 |
| הַ/מִּצְנֶ֔פֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 21:26 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְנֶ֜פֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 8:9 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְנֶ֣פֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 39:28 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְנָ֑פֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:37 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְנָֽפֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 29:6 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/מִצְנֶ֥פֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 16:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4701, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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