סָדִין
linen wrapper
‘linen wrapper’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5466 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Isaiah
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.
The Hebrew noun סדין centers on the idea of “linen wrapper.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to Judges (50%), then Proverbs and Isaiah. Debuting at Judges 14:12, it then recurs through the corpus. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5466 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 75%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 25%
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: Fine linen 2×, Sheets 2×
- American Standard Version: Linen garments 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Linen garments 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Linen garments 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5466 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5466 across 4 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 H5466 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5466 across 4 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 2 senses 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.
- linen wrapper
- rectangular piece of fine linen worn as outer, or at night, as a sole garment
Word origin
n.[m.] linen wrapper (perhaps foreign word; cf. Assyrian sudinnu DlHWB 490, a garment; NH סָדִין, 𝔗 סְדִינָא, Syriac ܣܕܝܢ, ܣܕܝܢܐ (rare) Mk 15:46; > cf. Arabic سِدْنٌ, سَدِينٌ 2 (v. Lane 1335), or ܣܶܕܽܘܢܳܐ, Gk. [and 𝔊] σινδών, cf. Frä 48 LewyFremdw. 85);—abs. ס׳ Pr 31:24; pl. סְדִינִים Ju 14:12, 13 Is 3:23;—wrapper or rectangular piece of fine linen, worn as outer, or (at night) as sole garment (cf. GFM Ju 14:12), + חֲלִפֹת בְּגָדִים Ju 14:12, 13, in list of women’s finery Is 3:23, made and sold by the capable woman Pr 31:24.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to envelop
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.
סַד
- to join; Arab. sadda, to obstruct, block) block, torturing stock.—Pl. סַדִּין. Tosef. Ab. Zar. II, 4 לא ס׳ וכ׳ (ed. Zuck. הסַדָּן), v. כֶּבֶל.
סָדִין
- (b. h.) sheet, usually of fine linen (cmp. σινδών; v. Sm. Ant. s. v. Pallium). Yoma III, 4 פרשו ס׳ של בוץ וכ׳ they spread a sheet of linen (for the high priest to walk on) between him &c. Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵇ top בס׳ אחד נקבר רבי Rabbi was buried in one linen shroud (without any other garments); Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵃ top. Y. Yeb. I, 2ᵇ; Gen. R. s. 85 דרך ס׳ each wrapped in a sheet (preventing direct contact). Men. 37ᵇ, a. e. ס׳ בציצית a linen cloak with woollen show-fringes; a. fr.—Pl. סְדִינִים, סְדִינִין. Nidd. 61ᵃ. Kel. XXIV, 13 שלשה ס׳ הן there are three classes of sheets with regard to Levitical purity. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. I, 14 ס׳ לצורות canvas sheets for paintings; ס׳ לאוהלים sheets for awnings. Tosef. Bets. II, 13 ס׳ היו פרוסין sheets (covering the floor of the dining room) were spread; Bab. ib. 22ᵇ; Y. ib. II, 61ᶜ bot.; 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 3 distinct written forms H5466 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| סְדִינִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Judges 14:12 | 2 |
| וְ/הַ/סְּדִינִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 3:23 | 1 |
| סָדִ֣ין | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 31:24 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 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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