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 Judges — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Judges
- Judges 14:12 סְדִינִ֔ים n c mp Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you: if you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
- Judges 14:13 סְדִינִ֔ים n c mp but if you can't declare it to me, then shall you give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing. They said to him, Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.
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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