Isaiah 3:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַפְּאֵרִ֤ים וְהַצְּעָדוֹת֙ וְהַקִּשֻּׁרִ֔ים וּבָתֵּ֥י הַנֶּ֖פֶשׁ וְהַלְּחָשִֽׁים

Transliteration

The-pəʾērîm and-the-ṣəʿādôt and-the-qiššurîm and-bāttê the-nepeš and-the-ləḥāšîm

Grammar Details

*happəʾērîm*: definite noun, masculine plural - the headdresses/turbans
*haṣṣəʿādôt*: definite noun, feminine plural - the step chains/ankle chains
*haqqiššurîm*: definite noun, masculine plural - the sashes/girdles
*bāttê*: noun, masculine plural construct - houses/containers of
*hannepeš*: definite noun, feminine singular - the soul/breath/perfume
*halləḥāšîm*: definite noun, masculine plural - the amulets/charms

Word Meanings

*pəʾēr*: headdress/turban/bonnet
*ṣəʿādāh*: step chain/ankle chain/ornamental leg band
*qiššûr*: sash/girdle/decorative belt
*bayit*: house/container/receptacle
*nepeš*: soul/breath/perfume container
*laḥaš*: amulet/charm/whisper

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Exod 39:28 : 28 And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
Ezek 16:12 : 12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
Hos 2:13 : 13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
Gen 35:4 : 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Exod 32:2 : 2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Isa 3:21-24
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92%
21The rings, and nose jewels,
22The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Isa 3:16-19
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16Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
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Ezek 16:10-13
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10I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
12And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
13Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
1 Pet 3:3
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3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Ezek 23:15
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15Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
Judg 8:26
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26And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.
Ezek 23:40
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40And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
Ezek 23:42
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42And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
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10Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
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Exod 28:40
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40And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.
Exod 35:22
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22And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
Exod 39:28
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28And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
Exod 28:13-14
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13And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
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Exod 35:27
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2 Chr 3:16
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16And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
Exod 32:2-3
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2And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
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Exod 33:6
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6And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
Ezek 23:26
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26They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
Exod 3:22
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22But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
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50We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
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Exod 25:7
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17Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
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Exod 33:4
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Exod 39:25-26
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1 Tim 2:9
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Exod 28:33-34
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33And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
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Exod 35:9
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1 Kgs 7:17
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Deut 22:12
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Exod 28:22
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22And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
Hos 2:13
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Exod 39:18
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Exod 28:8
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