salma · garment, cloak

What it means

salma (שַׂלְמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “garment, cloak”.

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. The outer wrap, also used to sleep in.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cloak ×5
• cloaks ×5
• clothes ×2
• garment ×2
• garments ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×3
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Micah×1

• Exodus 22:9

  In every case of transgression, whether for an ox, for a donkey, for a lamb, for a garment, or for any lost thing of which someone says, ‘This is it,’ the case of the two of them shall come before Elohim; the one whom Elohim declares guilty shall repay double to his neighbor.

• Exodus 22:26

  If you ever take in pledge the cloak of your neighbor, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

• Deuteronomy 24:13

  You shall surely return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be righteousness for you before YHWH your Elohim.

• Deuteronomy 29:5

  “I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your cloaks have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

• Joshua 9:5

  and worn-out and patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out cloaks on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and crumbled.

• Joshua 9:13

  And these wineskins that we filled new, look, they have split; and these cloaks of ours and our sandals have worn out from the very great length of the journey.”

• Joshua 22:8

  and said to them, saying, “With great riches return to your tents, and with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with very many garments. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

• 1 Kings 10:25

  And they were bringing, each his tribute: utensils of silver and utensils of gold, and cloaks, and weapons, and spices, horses and mules, what was due for a year, year by year.

• 1 Kings 11:29

  And it happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, that Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, found him on the road; and he had covered himself with a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the field.

• 1 Kings 11:30

  And Ahijah grabbed the new cloak that was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

• 2 Chronicles 9:24

  They brought each his tribute: utensils of silver and utensils of gold, cloaks, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, what was due for the year, year by year.

• Nehemiah 9:21

  Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

• Job 9:31

  then you would plunge me into the pit, and my clothes would abhor me.

• Psalms 104:2

  who wraps himself in light as in a cloak, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

• Song of Songs 4:11

  Your lips drip honeycomb, bride; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

• Micah 2:8

  “And yesterday my people rose up as an enemy; from the front of the garment you strip the cloak from those who pass by trustingly, like those returning from war.