naal · sandal

What it means

naal (נַעַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sandal”.

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. Footwear; removing it signaled holy ground or disgrace.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sandals ×12
• sandal ×10

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×3
• Ruth×2
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Ezekiel×2
• Amos×2

• Genesis 14:23

  that I will not take a thread or even a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so that you will not say, ‘I made Abram rich.’

• Exodus 3:5

  He said, “Do not come near here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

• Exodus 12:11

  This is how you shall eat it: your waists belted, your sandals on your feet, and your walking stick in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover of YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 25:9

  then his sister-in-law shall come near to him in the sight of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

• Deuteronomy 25:10

  And his name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him whose sandal was pulled off.”

• 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 5:15

  The chief of the army of YHWH said to Joshua, “Take off your sandal from your foot, for the place on which you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

• 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.”

• Ruth 4:7

  Now this was done formerly in Israel concerning redemption and concerning exchange, to confirm any matter: a man took off his sandal and gave it to his companion; and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.

• Ruth 4:8

  So the kinsman-redeemer said to Boaz, “Acquire it for yourself.” And he took off his sandal.

• 1 Kings 2:5

  Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner and to Amasa son of Jether, whom he killed, and he set the blood of war in time of peace and put the blood of war on his belt that was around his waist and on his sandal that were on his feet.

• Psalms 60:8

  Moab is the pot I wash in; upon Edom I will throw my sandal; because of me, Philistia, shout aloud.”

• Psalms 108:9

  Moab is the pot I wash in; upon Edom I will throw my sandal; over Philistia I will shout aloud.”

• Song of Songs 7:1

  How beautiful are your steps in sandals, daughter of a noble! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a craftsman.

• Isaiah 5:27

  None is weary and none stumbles in it; none slumbers or sleeps; the belt of its hips is not loosened, nor is the strap of its sandals broken.

• Isaiah 11:15

  And YHWH will devote to destruction the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and he will wave his hand over the River with the heat of his wind, and strike it into seven streams, and make people cross in sandals.

• Isaiah 20:2

  at that time YHWH spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from your loins, and take off your sandals from your feet.” And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

• Ezekiel 24:17

  Groan in silence; mourning for the dead you shall not make; your headdress bind on yourself, and your sandals put on your feet, and you shall not cover your mustache, and bread of men you shall not eat.”

• Ezekiel 24:23

  and your headdresses will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet; you will not lament and you will not weep, but you will waste away in your iniquities, and you will roar each to his brother.

• Amos 2:6

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.

• Amos 8:6

  to buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and the refuse of the wheat we will sell?”