tsipuy · overlay

What it means

tsipuy (צִפּוּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “overlay”.

Metal overlay.

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 layer of metal laid on something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• covering ×2
• overlaying ×2
• overlay ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Numbers×2
• Isaiah×1

• Exodus 38:17

  And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their rods of silver, and the overlaying of their tops of silver, and they were joined with rods of silver, all the pillars of the courtyard.

• Exodus 38:19

  And their pillars were four and their bases four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their rods of silver.

• Numbers 16:38

  the censers of these sinners at the cost of their lives. And let them make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before YHWH, and they became holy; and they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.”

• Numbers 16:39

  So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that those who were burned had presented, and they hammered them into a covering for the altar,

• Isaiah 30:22

  And you will defile the overlay of your carved idols of silver, and the plating of your cast image of gold; you will scatter them like a menstruous cloth; “Out!” you will say to it.