רְדִיד
veil
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (50%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7289 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 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.
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 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.
“veil” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun רדיד (râdîyd). It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Song of Solomon, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. First canonically at Song of Solomon 5:7, it enters the text early. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7289 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Song of Solomon 1 verse 50%
- Isaiah 1 verse 50%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
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: Vails 1×, Veil 1×
- American Standard Version: Mantle from me 1×, Veils 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cloak 1×, Shawls 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shawl 1×, Veils 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7289 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7289 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7289 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7289 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- something spread, wide wrapper or large veil
Word origin
[ רְדִיד ] n.[m.] wide wrapper, or large veil
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רדד (râdad) (H7286) — to beat down.
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.
רְדַד
- , to beat, stamp, stretch. Targ. Ps. CXXXVI, 6.—Part. pass. רָרִיד; pl. רְרִידִין. Targ. O. Num. XVII, 3 ed. Berl. (oth. ed. רַדִּידִין).
- same. Targ. Ex. XXXIX, 3. Targ. Num. XVII, 4. Targ. Ps. CXLIV, 2.—B. Mets. 83ᵇ רַרּוּדֵי ר׳ he has been hammering (metal, during the night).
- to become thin, slender. Ned. 61ᵇ ענבים נמי כי מִירַדְּדָן וכ׳ grapes, likewise, when their stems are thin, can be nipped off with the hand (without a pruning knife).
רַדִּיד
- (רְדַד) beaten, hammered metal, foil.—Pl. רַדִּידִין. Targ. O. Num. XVII, 3, v. רְדַד. Targ. Y. ib. רַדִּידֵי constr.
רָדִיד
- 1. (b. h.) a (female’s) wrap of fine texture, veil (v. לְסוֹטָה). Kel. XXIX, 1. Yalk. Num. 750 פטרו חכמים את הר׳ וכ׳ the scholars exempted a woman’s radid from show fringes; Sifré Num. 115 (corr. acc.).
- 2. the extreme border of a web by which it is stretched. Y. M. Kat. III, 83ᵇ top; Treat. S’maḥ. ch. IX חרוד (corr. acc.).—[Yalk. Gen. 95 ולקח את הר׳, read הדַּרְדּוּר, as Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXX.]
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 2 distinct written forms H7289 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/הָ/רְדִידִֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 3:23 | 1 |
| רְדִידִ/י֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Song of Solomon 5:7 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
