שׁוּל
skirt
‘skirt’ is one of 3 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
- 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).
Every verse where H7757 appears in the Book of Exodus — 5 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.
Exodus
- Exodus 28:33 שׁוּלָ֗י/ו שׁוּלָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between them round about:
- Exodus 28:34 שׁוּלֵ֥י n c mp cs a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe round about.
- Exodus 39:24 שׁוּלֵ֣י n c mp cs They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
- Exodus 39:25 שׁוּלֵ֤י n c mp cs They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;
- Exodus 39:26 שׁוּלֵ֥י n c mp cs a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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 שול centers on the idea of “skirt.” The word gravitates to Exodus (50%), then Jeremiah and Isaiah. It turns up in 10 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Exodus 28:33, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. Dig into 10-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7757 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 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 10 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 10%
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: Hem 4×, Skirts 2×
- American Standard Version: Skirts 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Around the lower hem 2×, Hem 2×, Skirts 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hem of 2×, Skirts 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7757 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H7757 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H7757 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7757 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 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.
- skirt (of robe)
- of high priest's robe
- of God's train, city as woman, ignominy, defilement (figuratively)
Word origin
[ שׁוּל ] n.m. skirt, of robe
— 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 hang 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.
שׁוּל
- , Hithpol. הִשְׁתּוֹלֵל, v. שָׁלַל II.
שׁוּל ²
- , a. Arab. savila) [that which hangs on, attachment,];du. שׁוּלַיִם, pl. שׁוּלִים
- 1. skirts of a garment. Yalk. Deut. 829 פעמונים … שׁוּלֵי המעיל the bells which the high priest wore on the skirts of his cloak.
- 2. lower part of the body, abdomen, buttock; contrad. to פה. Ohol. XI, 7 שהטומאה … שׁוּלָיו for the uncleanness (which the animal swallowed before it died) is assumed to take its way by its abdomen (and not through its mouth).
- 3. rim at the bottom of a vessel, saucer attached to the vessel; in gen. the bottom, rest of a vessel. Kel. XXX, 1 שולי קערה וכ׳ the lower part of a (broken) vesssel or of a salver of glass, which one made available for use. Sabb. 30ᵃ נהפכו פני … כשולי קדרה the faces of David’s enemies turned (black) like the bottom of a pot; Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᵈ, v. שָׁחַר II. Ohol. IX, 13 היתה עומדת על שׁוּלֶיהָ והיא כלי if the vessel stands on its rest, and it is available as a vessel (not defective). Tosef. ib. X, 3 היו שׁוּלָיו חדין וכ׳ if its rim at the bottom is sharp (not rounded), and there is not a handbreadth between its rim and the ground. Ib. 2 עמוד … שוליה של זו על פיה וכ׳ a column of pots …, the bottom of one on the mouth of the other &c. Dem. VII, 2 מה … בשולי הכוס what I intend to leave (of the wine) at the bottom of the cup; a. v. 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 H7757 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שׁוּלַ֖יִ/ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Jeremiah 13:22 | 3 |
| שׁוּלֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 28:34 | 2 |
| בְּ/שׁוּלֶ֗י/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Lamentations 1:9 | 1 |
| וְ/שׁוּלָ֖י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 6:1 | 1 |
| שׁוּלֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 39:24 | 1 |
| שׁוּלֵ֤י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 39:25 | 1 |
| שׁוּלָ֖י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 28:33 | 1 |
| שׁוּלָ֗י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 28:33 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 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.
