simla · cloak

What it means

simla (שִׂמְלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cloak”.

The outer garment, which also served as a covering for sleeping.

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 garment one wraps oneself in; by extension, clothing.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cloak ×10
• clothing ×5
• garment ×4
• garments ×4
• cloaks ×3
• clothes ×2
• cloth ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×7
• Exodus×6
• Deuteronomy×6
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×4

• Genesis 9:23

  And Shem and Japheth took the cloak and laid it on the shoulders of both of them, and they walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, and the nakedness of their father they did not see.

• Genesis 35:2

  So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

• Genesis 37:34

  Jacob tore his garments, put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

• Genesis 41:14

  Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. He shaved, changed his clothes, and came to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 44:13

  They tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

• Genesis 45:22

  To each he gave changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

• Exodus 3:22

  Each woman shall ask of her neighbor and of the woman who resides in her house articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; and so you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

• Exodus 12:34

  So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

• Exodus 12:35

  The sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses: they asked of the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.

• Exodus 19:10

  YHWH said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments

• Exodus 19:14

  Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.

• Exodus 22:27

  for it is his only covering; it is his cloak for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

• Deuteronomy 8:4

  Your cloak did not wear out on you, and your foot did not swell these forty years.

• Deuteronomy 10:18

  He does justice for the orphan and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him bread and a cloak.

• Deuteronomy 21:13

  and she shall remove the garment of her captivity from herself, and she shall stay in your house and weep for her father and her mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

• Deuteronomy 22:3

  And so you shall do with his donkey, and so you shall do with his garment, and so you shall do with any lost thing of your brother that is lost by him and you find; you may not ignore it.

• Deuteronomy 22:5

  A man’s article shall not be on a woman, and a man shall not put on a woman’s garment, for an abomination to YHWH your Elohim is everyone who does these things.

• Deuteronomy 22:17

  and look, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, ‘I did not find in your daughter virginity.’ But these are the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the city.

• Joshua 7:6

  Joshua tore his cloaks and fell on his face to the ground before the ark of YHWH until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

• Judges 8:25

  They said, “We will certainly give them.” They spread out the cloak, and each man threw there an earring from his spoil.

• Ruth 3:3

  So wash yourself, anoint yourself, put your cloak on you, and go down to the threshing floor; do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

• 1 Samuel 21:9

  The priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck in the Valley of Elah, look, it is wrapped in a cloak behind the ephod. If you will take it for yourself, take it, for there is no other besides it here.” David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

• 2 Samuel 12:20

  Then David rose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his cloaks; he went into the house of YHWH and bowed down; then he went to his own house and asked, and they set before him bread, and he ate.

• Proverbs 30:4

  Who has gone up to the heavens and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in the garment? Who has raised up all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son, if you know?

• Isaiah 3:6

  When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, “You have a cloak; you shall be ruler for us, and this ruin shall be under your hand,”

• Isaiah 3:7

  he will lift up his voice on that day, saying, “I will not be one who binds wounds; in my house there is no bread and no cloak; you shall not make me ruler of the people.”

• Isaiah 4:1

  And seven women will take hold of one man on that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing; only let your name be called over us; take away our disgrace.”

• Isaiah 9:5

  For every boot of the one tramping in tumult, and the cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

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