Genesis 24:65
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
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For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
Read in context →Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
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pôreketh · po-reh'-keth
a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screen
Strong's KJV usage: vail.
Strong's first: Exodus 26:31Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 3:14
Open full H6532 profile →kályma · kal'-oo-mah
a cover, i.e. veil
Strong's KJV usage: :--vail.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 3:13Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 3:16
Open full G2571 profile →maçveh · mas-veh'
a veil
Strong's KJV usage: vail.
Strong's first: Exodus 34:33Strong's last: Exodus 34:35
Open full H4533 profile →tsâʻîyph · tsaw-eef'
a veil
Strong's KJV usage: vail.
Strong's first: Genesis 24:65Strong's last: Genesis 38:19
Open full H6809 profile →miṭpachath · mit-pakh'-ath
a wide cloak (for a woman)
Strong's KJV usage: vail, wimple.
Strong's first: Ruth 3:15Strong's last: Ruth 3:15
Open full H4304 profile →maççêkâh · mas-say-kaw'
properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out)
Strong's KJV usage: covering, molten (image), vail.
Strong's first: Isaiah 25:7Strong's last: Isaiah 25:7
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For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.
And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
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VAIL, noun [Latin velum, from velo, to cover, to spread over. It is correctly written vail for e, in Latin, is our adjective ]
1. Any kind of cloth which is used for intercepting the view and hiding something; as the vail of the temple among the Israelites.
2. A piece of thin cloth or silk stuff, used by females to hide their faces. In some eastern countries, certain classes of females never appear abroad without vails.
3. A cover; that which conceals; as the vail of oblivion.
4. In botany, the membranous covering of the germen in the Musci and Hepaticae; the calypter.
5. Vails, money given to servants. [Not used in America.]
VAIL, verb transitive [Latin velo.] To cover; to hide from the sight; as, to vail the face.
VAIL, verb transitive
1. To let fall.
They stiffly refused to vail their bonnets.
[I believe wholly obsolete.]
2. To let fall; to lower; as, to vail the topsail. obsolete
3. To let fall; to sink. obsolete
VAIL, verb intransitive To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding.
Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity. obsolete
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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