tsamid · bracelet

What it means

tsamid (צָמִיד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bracelet”.

Band worn on the arm.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A ring worn on the wrist.
2. What closes a jar at the top.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bracelets ×6
• lid ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Numbers×2
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 24:22

  When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring of half a shekel in weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels of gold in weight,

• Genesis 24:30

  When he saw the ring and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “Thus the man spoke to me,” he went to the man; and look, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

• Genesis 24:47

  Then I asked her and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her hands.

• Numbers 19:15

  And every open vessel that has no lid fastened on it is unclean.

• Numbers 31:50

  So we have brought the offering of YHWH, each what he found: articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make expiation for our souls before YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 16:11

  And I adorned you with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands and a necklace on your neck.

• Ezekiel 23:42

  And the sound of a carefree crowd was in her, and with men from the multitude of humankind Sabeans were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands and a crown of beauty on their heads.